Oh no the neural implant project backfired, I must now spread the logs throughout the building an leave a distress message in Latin
Oh no the neural implant project backfired, I must now spread the logs throughout the building an leave a distress message in Latin
"Day 33: Problematic symptoms developing in Patient X. Current fluctuations from the implant are causing unwanted signals in the somatosensory cortex. The patient is expressing aggressive behavior as a result, presumably due to the interference of the implant on normal sensory function. It is unknown what is causing the fluctuations.
Day 45: Patient X sedated following a violent outburst that injured a staff member. fMRI scans indicate an uptick in activity in the premotor cortex compared to the previous scan four days ago. Patient X not responding well to the Brain-Computer Interface. Violent aggression may not be consciously controllable.
Day 46: Patient X escaped Secure Room Alpha. Lockdown initiated. Quarantine measures are now in effect. There is a loud banging on the lab door. This might be my last journal entry. Before I leave this Earth, please let the shareholders know I created value for them."
i remember rightwingers, the same who praise elon musk lately, screamed for months about implanting chips during covid vaccinations. oh the irony.
The right wingers were not angry about microchips in the blood. They were angry about secret, non-consensual, microchips in the blood.
Please don’t make me say these stupid disclaimers: I don’t think covid vaccines contain microchips.
Anyway, it was about consent, not a moral outrage at implanted chips. A moral outrage at secret microchips implanted by government directive under cover of emergency powers.
Security Log day 42: Our request for a proper security door was denied. “Just buy a master lock, it’s cheaper” was the reply.
Oh well, I’ll make something work. Right after my quick meeting with HR.
[Last log entry]
And the meat grinding wheels of capitalism just keep on churning.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
June 9th: Of the original four dozen, over 75% are now deceased. Strangely, no clear patterns have emerged as of yet.
Batch 5 seems to have no common discernible effect on any specific group though the men seem slightly more resilient than the women.
June 18: And only five left now. Two men and three women.
The man in room five is a fascinating case. Physically, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with him. No cellular anomalies, nothing.
December 24th: I was in the mess. It was about half past ten when we heard the first explosion.
The ones at the front ran straight into the gas. It was horrible.
It was the man in room five. I couldn't have known. The chemical supplies, grease solvents, ammonia, fertilizer. He'd been making things with them.
Mustard gas... And napalm.
And in the yard, I saw him. He had the flames behind him. He was naked.
He looked at me...
As if I were an insect. Oh god. As if I were something mounted on a slide.
He looked at me.
In View, a humble Vaudevillian Veteran, cast Vicariously as both Victim and Villain by the Vicissitudes of fate.
The device looks like it was chewed by a wild animal parts of the board is missing but you may be able to recover some data...
Day 1 mission log: We have arrived at the lab to try and figure out why the scientists have ceased communication. We found the door damaged and pried open. There is a broken loader out in front of the lab. we are setting up a perimeter.
Day 2: We were woken in the very early morning to the sounds of something large in the bush. We heard a scream and upon investigation Johnson was ripped apart and partially eaten. we have implemented a more strict watch schedule.
Day 3: we have finally managed to enter the lab. We lost Johansen and Richardson last night. Hopefully we can figure out what happened and what is out here.
---Data corruption detected---
Day 7: Mother of god there was blood everywhere. doors ripped open, bodies and body parts everywhere. There are runes drawn in blood on the walls. There is some sort of device that is projecting a shimmering portal, I'm going to investigate it more and try to find my missing team members...
--- Unable to recover any more files, CRC check sums have failed, data corruption 98% ---
This is the story of an investigative journalist who goes to explore X Asylum after hearing of the terrible things happening there.
Jesus that last line really got me! Too real for me fam.
Day 47: patient x dies of covid variant know as osnfbejcjdkd theta. /S
Imagine voluntarily granting an advertising company direct access to your brain.
I can imagine for people who are disabled this is super exciting stuff.
Disable AdBlock or we'll disable you again.
This kind of emerging technology preys upon those people's hopes of living a normal life again. I just recently saw a YouTube video of people who got implants to cure blindness (with a glasses-like device to bridge the gap) and once the company that produces them went out of business they ceased support for their units that were inevitably going to fail as all hardware does.
Elon Musk and Neuralink is no different. They're rushing this tech to market and they know it. High likelihood of it becoming abandonware, but improving the lives of their patients was never the goal. Making money is the goal.
Linux neuralink edition gon be funnnnn
78 developers across the globe. No one can agree on direction and half drop out in 3 months to fork it. Several forks happen and they all fail, and a few survive but become mutually incompatible.
You download a poorly tested update via brain apt-get and lose the ability to use the letter k.
A successful fork takes off and everyone uses it but then IBM buys it. Now big blue owns your brain and charges insane licenses fees.
Probably the drivers I'd want to try to maintain and get working the least.
Until you accidentally think sudo rm / -rf...
I don't feel like advertisements in general are that much different. Constant assault, every medium, weaponized brain washing. I bet that given a cue you could perfectly hum the tunes of at least a hundred or so jingles that you weren't aware of infesting you brain.
Has anyone a TL;DR why they could do that? Last time I heard anything about Neuralink they were mass killing animals with botched implants.
Do we have any concrete evidence that he’s even telling the truth? Something other than a tweet on a platform he owns? He seems to lie often.
Smells a lot like "Funding secured" or any of the other insane promises he's made.
There's the hyper loop, the cyber truck missing deadlines and quality concerns and range lies, all of the Tesla delays, etc
That said they did FDA approval for human trials last May https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/
They were approved last year in May by the FDA for human trials
FDA fell asleep at the wheel
Just recently I was reading about blind people who got experimental eye implants several years ago. They're having serious problems now because the company stopped supporting the implants.
All implanted medical device firmware should be Free Software.
...how. I make plastic medical devices and I need to support them for 10 years by law, since that is considered "lifetime" for it. How is a company not supporting them before the lifetime of the product (i.e. before they need to take them out) and gets away with it?
"Oops. We failed. Happens to businesses all the time. Good luck with that. Sign up for the newsletter of our new businesses below! What's that, liability? Nooo no no, you must be mistaking this for a socialist country. This here is capitalism, that's part of the program, it's all there encoded in the law for everyone to see!"
seems like i have read similar about folks who got implants to manage migraine or epilepsy.
edit - i was reading about it in the New Yorker, context was more philosophical. but here's an article that looks to cover the topic (biotech abandonware) directly.
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html
Do people think this is new? We have been able to do this for decades. I'm a lowly PhD student and even I get to work with humans whose brains we are actively recording from (although I don't put the electrodes in there myself).
Just another instance of Muskrat talking about things he doesn't know. I used to think he was a genius when he was talking about rockets, then he started talking about things I know (neuro & AI)...
Elon never invents anything new. He finds a complex concept, scuffs off at it's complexity and announces it's actually really simple. Creates company that over-simplifies things.
Sometimes his project fails enough times that it starts working (space x).
He has so much money that he can keep doing it. And hire the best in the field - there's no money in academia so of course they'll go. And then he'll take credit for their hard work eventually of course.
Sometimes his project fails enough times that it starts working (space x).
That's just the process of engineering that's not an Elon thing that's just an engineering thing. No one knew how to make reusable rockets that land on the launch pad so of course it was trial and error. The reason NASA would never do it is because it's trial and error and Congress don't want NASA blowing rockets up.
The Soviet space program was exactly the same and remember they got into space first.
Screw Elon, but to be fair...that's most business and science. You try, fail, adjust, try again, rinse and repeat until you find success.
So what are actually useful applications that might be feasible soon for this kind of stuff? I could google it but I'd mostly get a bunch of sensationalist BS that is meant to generate clicks.
Basically three things -
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BCI - Brain Computer Interface. This can allow people with disabilities to control prosthetics using their brains. For example, this one from 20+ yrs ago. They are in clinical trial stages now - lot of data over 20yrs showing it's pretty safe. There are some differences like BrainGate uses "Utah" electrodes which sit on the brain rather than go inside the brain.
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Medical diagnosis - Some patients (with things like epilepsy) get their brains recorded like this to find the region of the brain that is malfunctioning. Then sometimes this region is removed and believe it or not it actually helps! Edit: DBS is another option sometimes like the other commenter said but that needs "stimulation" also, not just passive recording.
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Understanding the brain - these recording data can help make sense of the brain. We still don't understand much of how the brain works so this data can help and maybe help with treatments in the future.
For all of these currently we only have patients (because "healthy" people wouldn't want metal electrodes in their brain). But neuralink's promise is to make these electrodes so thin and dense (so that you can record more) while keeping SNR high that it might be possible to put it in healthy people without brain damage. I wouldn't hold my breath for that, though.
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Didn't the team he put together at least come up with better miniaturization of a BCI, with denser/more numerous electricodes, and a more advanced implantation process to minimize scarring?
A genius? I figured he was a visionary or just a bloke who, ugh, "aimed for the stars" I guess.
Nope, just some rich Souf Effrican chode.
I disagree with Musk on a lot (especially wanting just cameras for self-driving cars), but, in the tweet he does say "from Neurolink" not "ever"
Musk can't even make a proper ev why would anyone want a product of his in their brain.
When the patient dies Musk’s team will write a report saying it was the patient’s fault.
Musk has literally no idea how any of the stuff these companies produce works.
A year from now: “First Nueralink implant recipient dead after it exploded in his brain, sending shrapnel directly through his frontal lobe”
Agreed but also not like musk is really doing anything at any of these companies. He brings funding yea but then just takes credit for their work and gives publicity, although lately bad publicity
If it would help making soldiers perform better it will get funding and approval..
Musk can’t even make a proper ev
Wow
If you’re gonna complain about the other models being good you should know he had nothing to do with any of them, other than buying the company and demanding workers sleep on the factory floor to meet fulfilment. Every company he is the face of was someone else’s ideas and effort, all the way back to the 90s. He supplies capital and in return people who don’t understand the subject matter assume he knows what he’s talking about because he gets quoted a lot.
Oh shit, those logs were always like that too! Short and revealing, I always wondered who would write like that. Well here we are.
I've been thinking about it a lot as simply a literary tool and how hard it must be to come up with all the little notes and logs that just give the audience little glimpses and makes them piece the whole story together themselves, as opposed to simply telling a story in a more traditional way. It always feels like what we, the player, can see in the course of a game is miniscule compared to what they had written behind the scenes.
I always find it weird when videogame do that, in writing even.
"the monster is at my door, i don't think i can get through this. Ohh shit the door is broken! The monster is charging at me! I love you, my dear wife, goodb"
Dude could've find a way out but instead he start to scribble down his thought in his journal.
Aren’t they usually transcriptions? I don’t remember any games off the top of my head where some scientist is actually typing their last thoughts out…
Skyrim lol. Everyone seem to have the habit of tearing a page of their journal out and leave it at random place. Also Metro Exodus, you can find notes throughout the open area and some will have journal with the writer's final moment, like for example this.
I think there's more i can't recall, but some game do use transcript and even then i find those weird as heck, they all leave their transcript tape at random place as well.
I hear footsteps… oh no it‘s at the door. My constant audio recordings probably caught it‘s attention at last. Anyway, here‘s wonderw-
More of an indie game but Unturned did this, I believe in the Scorpion-7 building there's a journal note that reads like this.
They do it when they're trapped, with no way out. Usually in-between moments of duress.
In fairness, it has happened several times IRL when scientists realized they're about to die. I think we know cyanide tastes almond-y because someone wrote it down after a lab accident. I forget her name, but there was a woman who got a lethal dose of a very dangerous form of mercury (due to a ripped glove), and she documented her symptoms for the several days with her husband by her side
Early chemistry used to involve looking, smelling, touching, and tasting new chemicals... Back when science was more of a solo hobby, they'd document everything as they went. I'm sure instant death was pretty rare, but I'm sure there's at least a few records where it goes "I will now taste the substance. It tastes faintly of lemons and soap. I am struck with dizziness after a few moments. My vision has become blurry, I fear I have made a terrible mistake. Martha, if these are my last thoughts, know they were of you"
I buy that this is a thing a true scientist would do (assuming they thought their only hope was to hide and hope for rescue)... It's just way overused and often not thought out well
I always like the trope of "Well, I've been disemboweled. I know! I'll write a final warning with my own blood on the wall! Great idea, me!"
You need to buy Brain Lite subscription to be able to think.
Least purchased subscription of all time.
Who had Doom irl on their 2024 bingo card?
Does running doom on brains count?
All Doom versions run on brains. It's what everything runs on.
The device allows you to directly post your thoughts on Xitter.
Wasn’t there a South Park episode that predicted exactly this? Didn’t they even call it Shitter?
Idk about South Park but Futurama had an episode about the Eye-Phone that let people post whatever was happening directly in front of them
oh man. the Susan Boyle craze. simpler times
A lot of these types read sci-fi dystopia books and think, "yeah that would be really cool actually."
"I've created the Torment Nexus, from the sci-fi classic 'Don't Create the Torment Nexus'"
"Based on a fictional story"
Elon has gone on record saying he's a huge sci-fi fan, and has mentioned Iain M Banks in particular who writes a lot of posthuman and transhuman characters. He's literally pulling his ideas directly from fiction.
Nothing wrong with that, being visionary was the domain of writers and artists through all ages, Jules Verne springs to mind as someone who inspired a lot of inventors of modern things. Missing the point completely and finding ways to abuse those visions was the domain of the bourgeoisie, through all the same ages, up to and including today.
Wanna bet he never gets one himself?
His will be the master version, all others will be slaved to it.
Does this story end with someone throwing Elon Musk into a volcano?
This or autopilot being the reason for his death would be... something.
Notice the guy who says he wants to live on Mars has never once gone up on a SpaceX flight.
This is like the plot to any sci-fi horror or tragedy show ever. Wealthy CEO insists on disregarding the damage the medical implants do and pushes ahead to work on human trials.
What’s next? Zombie Super Soldiers?
Does anyone remember the OCZ NIA ("Neural Impulse Actuator")?
It was a gaming input device, a simple headband that measured brain activity externally. For beginners, if you thought really hard of "pitch black" or "bright white," it could measure that and you had your first two thought-controlled buttons. Advanced users could train themselves all the way to several buttons and analog inputs, i.e. control joystick input through their mind.
(just Google/DDG "OCZ NIA" to watch some old review and test videos)
This guy must have played the original Deus Ex.
That game has the best worldbuilding I’ve ever seen. Picking up the story by exploring is very well done. Haven’t gotten far through it, nor played any of the others in the series. But just really well done discoverable storytelling.
It's a shame that System Shock 3 got cancelled.
I NEED QUARTERLY EARNINGS PROJECTIONS, STAT
I never thought I'd see a Resonance Cascade, let alone create one.
If it's so great, you should test it on yourself, Phony Stark. The chimps were just fine, right?
...right?
Omg this is all the more horrifying when we consider that the source is an irl monster:-|.
Dr Yu, please hide in this room as best you can.
They're coming! They're coming.....
Drums in the deep!
Spike detection? Is that when a patient goes rogue and impales someone?
Not even remotely. Typically whenever you want to do something, like moving your arm, walking, w/e, that's firing your neurons, causing them to spike. The idea for a lot of these implants is trying to detect that spike, and then translate it into a roughly corresponding mechanical action.
Assuming this is true, it's great news, means it is working as intended. Unfortunately, it was said by Elon Musk, so the odds of it being true are pretty low.
"Promising" is the key word there. Could mean one or two measurement outliers/coincidences getting blown out of proportion, could be something real but not yet verified.
Anyone see Deep Blue Sea with LL Cool J?
QUICK GUYS MAKE A GAME THAT INCLUDEDS THE ELON MUSK TWEET BUT NO NEURALINK
satanic and should be illegal
I agree it should be illegal, but what's wrong with Satan? Also, I don't know how you made that connection
Probably from watching the Left Behind series.
Satan is a cool dude
