This absolutely should not be allowed to be done. We are treading on dangerous territory, except everyone is excitedly plodding forward without a second thought.
Could you elaborate on why this is dangerous and shouldn't be done?
This was already being done way before Musk, for medical reasons. You can't expect people to put society in front of their own health.
I agree. This work is incredibly cool scientifically but this seems too dangerous to pursue further
- Said everyone who saw the first computers, planes, automobiles, trains, bikes, phones, telegram, and likely the wheel.
I'm sure everybody who saw the first nuclear bomb said this too, and they were right.
I am become death
One could argue nuclear bombs and MAD are the reason there hasn't been a third world war.
Someone asked an engineer who designed ICBMs : How do you feel that things you worked on may never actually be used?
He said, then I have succeeded. The purpose has always been to act as an deterrent. If my work was used, then somewhere something has failed.
Off topic to neuralink, but found it interesting.