[kamray23]

Whatever Neuralink is missing, it's none of these things. They're certainly missing a lot, as is their owner, but it's absolutely none of these things. Like, we've been using brain electrodes to control devices for a very long time now. They know the issues. As they are originally a neuroprosthetics company whose whole goal was to develop means for paralyzed people to control limbs and devices, they're perfectly in their zone. That's not their issue.

As what their owner wants them to be, with data transmission into the brain and individually addressable neurons, they're leagues off from a functional product. Extracting and interpreting brain signals is, while not simple, well-known and well-practiced. The other direction is practically unexplored and the most we normally do is poke around with a bit of electricity and hope it makes the brain work better. To move data from a computer into the brain would be a total revolution. Needless to say, their current product does not do this, and they've shown zero development to this end. Which kind of makes it feel like they're hoodwinking Musk to develop actually useful medical devices instead of playing into his naive technocratic futurism. That just means they know what they're doing even more strongly than what their other actions have already shown.

[ShamelessC]

> Extracting and interpreting brain signals is, while not simple, well-known and well-practiced. Their current product does not do this, and they've shown zero development to this end.

I was following you until this. Can you clarify? Isn’t their most recent work precisely an example of inferring and applying a person’s intent by deciphering their brain signals?

[kamray23]

Ah, sorry, one of those situations where you think about what you'll write and don't end up writing it down. I am of course referring to the inverse in the second sentence, moving data into a brain from a computer. Corrected in the original comment now, thanks!