Elon Musk's Neuralink brain computer interfaces

Elon launching his latest visionary company to implant computer chips in your brain and give you direct access to AI and computing power:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2019/07/17/elon-musk-sees-his-neuralink-merging-your-brain-with-ai/#756427644b07

 

What do we think m7s?

I was at a presentation on this sort of technology a while ago during a legal conference at Duke University. There are a whole heap of ethical and legal problems with it and some of the implied uses it could be put to. A very troubling field to say the least.

LOLLERS re Grimes:

 

GRIMES: My training is a 360 approach. I first maintain a healthy cellular routine where I maximize the function of my mitochondria with supplements such as NAD+, Acetyl L-Carnitine, Magnesium, etc. This helps promote ATP and it’s incredibly visceral. From that point I spend 2-4 hours in my deprivation tank, this allows me to “astro-glide” to other dimensions - past, present, and future. 
In the afternoons I do a 1-2 hour sword fighting session with my trainer, James Lew, we go over the fundamentals that work the obliques, core stabilizes, and triceps as well as a few tricks. To wind down from this I spend 30-45 minutes on an inclined hike at roughly 4-4.5 miles per hour, arguably the most efficient workout.

I then spend 45 minutes stretching before heading into the studio where my mind and body are functioning at peak level, with a neuroplastic goal between 57.5 and 71.5 AphC’s (which is my preferred range for my blood type). I’ve outfitted my studio with the highest grade of red light. It is pretty much 1000 sqf IR Sauna. 
Hana then comes over and we do a screaming session for 20-25 minutes while I slow boil the honey tea that maximizes vocal proficiency.

I have also eliminated all blue light from my vision through an experimental surgery that removes the top film of my eyeball and replaces it with an orange ultra-flex polymer that my friend and I made in the lab this past winter as a means to cure seasonal depression.

I go to bed with a humidifier on.

WTAF?

Like some of her music but Grimes is clearly mental. I'm on board with the sword fighting which is a legit workout and the stretching. What is an inclined hike? The rest sounds barking and don't get me started on the eye surgery. Can't imagine not seeing blue skies.

Before you get one of these things drilled into your brain, maybe pause at the fact that the design team behind it could be the same one that Elon had draw up his Amber Heard Memorial Dildo Submarine:

 

 

 

Am put in mind of the prof in flash gordon.  In the scene where he defies the evil ming by remembering the beatles and shakespeare.

I realise that many roffers are not well placed to repel the evil ming...

Before that even fluffy.  Asimov considers a similar concept in his foundation books written in the ‘50s.

More recently the ‘Neural Lace’ concept was extensively written about by the late Iain M Banks in his culture books.

Indeed, there are doubtless hoards of Musk stans who would jump at the chance to be Neuralink beta testers. 

Up until recently, he was certainly good at cultivating the public persona of a Tony Stark-like figure. It's becoming increasingly apparent that this persona is also largely fictional.