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Insane as in it works but the movement in the video is not anything like the instant pro gamer Elon made it out to be. It's amazing but it's diminished by over promising again. sic

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We're talking about somebody who hasn't had the means to be a "gamer". No experience with a first person 3d shooter with traditional controls. He plays better than my 12 year old would; no running along looking at the sky or the ground, no struggling with going around obstacles. I think that's pretty insane.

I also think it's insane having Elon's m̶o̶n̶k̶e̶y̶s̶ surgeons poking at your brain, but maybe that's just me.

As with usual exponential growth -- do not blink.

The exponential growth is that you see nothing for long time, until it is too late.

Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurgery startups getting funded billions of dollars. And that we are in the midst of another tech bubble.

Minimally invasive is the biggest issue. It’s gonna involve removing a portion of your skull for the forseeable future, and even if it doesn’t it’ll be brain surgery. I think ai-driven surgery-free bci would be more consumer viable, but it’s not clear whether such bci can be done effectively with electrodes far as im aware. I think it’ll be a medical product and an extreme niche of high-performance gaming or something, if anything non-medical exists at all, for a long time.

Here's an article from a few years ago, reviewing "over 50 years of brain-computer interface history": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824107/

I'm not ready to declare exponential growth in anything but hype levels, yet; I don't see any great leaps forward concerning the fundamental problems faced by the field.

Relax. We have at least two more years of AI-everything hype and startups to endure before we can change bandwagons.

There seems to be no particular reason to expect exponential growth here to me. Can you explain why you'd expect that?

Like self-driving? :)

Crazy how all Teslas have been self-driving robotaxis earning passive income for their owners since 2016. Truly this man will never do a flim flam. ;)

Like self-landing rockets. :)

>Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurgery startups getting funded billions of dollars. And that we are in the midst of another tech bubble.

I think Neuralink is going to be more like SpaceX, not like Bitcoin.

Enron Musk lying again to line his pockets.

Works every time. People here in particular lap it up.

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