Beyond that, allowing for these experimental trials, regardless of their success or failure, can accelerate medical progress that can enable better care for many more people in the future.
It's so strange that people feel it's wrong for patients to make their own choice on this, but they are okay forcing others to not have treatment. It's a "My decision is better than yours, I can decide what is better for you.
This is why universities have institutional review boards and it’s broadly forbidden to conduct experiments on prisoners.
2. Companies don't get to benefit from you being a test subject as a result of you being euthanized.
3. The upside of euthanasia is getting to die. The upside of what's happening here is maybe getting to have a cool gadget for a little while until your brain implant falls out, and then who knows what kind of terrible injury you'll suffer!
That’s not a good faith statement of the upside of a neural implant.
The upside of having a neural implant is that the quality of life for a quadriplegic person is greatly improved for as long as the implant lasts, which is potentially indefinite, if the device works correctly. It’s not a “for fun” project, see the video here for a real demonstration of this man’s life being improved: https://youtu.be/5SrpYZum4Nk?feature=shared
A man who is paralyzed from the neck down being able to use a computer fluently again and do things like play his favorite video games is a huge upside.
The way you discover a lot of problems is because of the trial patients. This happens ever day in medicine.
I don't think that's the case with medical researches at all. They have good ideas of outcome with petri dishes and chimera mice before verifying the result with human trials. They didn't made COVID vaccines by trial and error on living humans, that could have taken a century.
Especially with neural stuffs. If they can't make it work not with cultured cells and guinea pigs, there's nothing to be gained from scaling it out to an explosive failure on a launchpad.
Your assertion is that drugs are discovered on fuck-around-and-find-out basis on live humans, which is simply false and stupid.
Did you read the interview from Bloomberg?
“Arbaugh had talked with Bain about how he would be receiving what was probably the worst Neuralink implant that anyone would get. But Arbaugh had agreed to the trial precisely because these types of issues could occur. He wanted to be a means for helping other people by aiding Neuralink in its quest to root out any of the implant’s flaws.“
Yeah let's hope that they figure out how to design them to have a track record of literally any of the recipients not dying
2. He's objectively not, and the implant will become entirely detached probably before the end of the summer. He's also experiencing side effects, according to sources online.
It's a medical study whose purpose is just to get a better grasp of things.