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> And he frequently gives credit to his team (and doesn't sit there patting himself on the back).

Yes, the list of authors on the whitepaper they released is "Elon Musk & Neuralink". I guess his team should be thankful.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6204648-Neuralink-Wh...

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As the other commenters said, that's not a research paper. Here is a link to an actual research paper where (at least some of) the authors work for neuralink.

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(18)30993-0

thats a white paper , not the research paper (which is what ppl will read). You can also read it the other way around: He wanted to credit the entire Neuralink team, without claiming to be part if it or leading it

It would have read that way if the author list had simply said 'Neuralink'. He is definitely positioning himself as the leader here.

BioArxiv required at least one human author. We suggested this author list to him and, honestly, we just think it’s awesome.

Actually, the leader is usually the last author. The first author is usually the student doing the gruntwork

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