Elon Musk said his Neuralink brain chip could help treat morbid obesity. Scientists say it's a long

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shot – but not an impossibility.

Elon Musk believes his Neuralink brain chip could help treat morbid obesity. Experts say the billionaire's dream isn't as far-fetched as it may seem.

"I don't think it is any more implausible than other claims for the potential of neurotechnology," Professor Andrew Jackson, an expert in neural interfaces at Newcastle University, told Insider.

Musk made the suggestion in a TED interview on April 14, thereby adding "morbid obesity" to a growing list of ailments he believes Neuralink could help treat.

Experts interviewed by Insider said a commercially-available obesity-busting brain chip was a long way off but the concept was promising if backed by the right science.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-said-neuralink-brain-090700779.html

[Matthew28]

1. Now that would an awesome advancement

[grumpyduck]

2. Resistance is futile.

You too will be assimilated.

[Takket]

20. I was thinking the same thing lol

I read a book about the future by physicist Michio Kaku and it seems almost inevitable that over the next century, tech will get more and more refined to the point where we actually have implants, exoskeletons, tools on our appendages, etc. in other words being Borg is our future. But not in our lifetimes.

[dalton99a]

3. And the Neuralink brain chip won't let you drive a Tesla into a wall

[haele]

4. How many lab animals and beta-testing people is he going to kill trying to prove this?

I don't trust " his research", nor do I trust the research of any legit organization he pays to proof his childish sci-fi concept.
It's not that a neuro-link type prosthetic implant couldn't be developed and useful eventually, it's that I don't trust Elon Musk not to shortcut the science for his ego project of the year.
His track record is not of a real genius scientist, it's of a clever rich brat who has bought out other's science or cheated to make his name.

Haele

[moniss]

19. exactly

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. Oh, he found something that will finally make people take him seriously.

[Hoyt]

6. Would be fantastic, but might also be like shining a light up your rear.

[Blue Owl]

7. Let's test it on FF45

[madinmaryland]

8. Scientists say Musks's Neuralink brain chip could help treat his morbid stupidity.

🤬🤬🤬🤬

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Self-driving biology

Aim the space lasers!

[viva la]

10. So now he's a neuroscientist????

He can't even get his hyperloop fancy-subway to work 140 years after the first subways were in5vented (Which still work far better than his silly contraption).

[AnyFunctioningAdult]

14. He owns a company

That employees a lot of scientists and engineers including neuroscientists. Hopefully they continue to do good work with the goal of improving people's lives through science and medicine.

[Hoyt]

15. Yes. Hope they do great things.

[moniss]

17. More like lining his own pockets

[misanthrope]

22. Beat me to it

The goal of Musk's employees are their tightly focused projects, nothing grander. The only grand scheme is his furtherance of ego, hubris and power.

[viva la]

26. Yeah, I have a neuro problem, and about the last person I'd trust my brain too--

is Elon Musk.

Real geniuses don't think they know everything.

[misanthrope]

28. I suspect he is more megalomaniac than genius

He has all the makings of a Bond villain.

[viva la]

38. OH, you're right!

I love that idea.

[Javaman]

11. How about curing repukes of being sociopaths? nt

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. Hack the chip and give them all uncontrollable flatulence.

They'd still be sociopaths, but at least you'd know when one was in the vicinity.

[Fullduplexxx]

12. how about one to get the greedy to pay their fair share of taxes

[Hoyt]

16. One of the ways people like Musk "avoid taxes" is investing money into

scientific companies that research and apply ideas like this.

That company might just do a lot of good, like vaccine companies. At some point, when they aren’t expanding and spending tons of “profits” in research, they’ll pay taxes. Probably should be more taxes, but that’s another issue.

[viva la]

39. Well, now instead he's buying Twitter....

Which is very BAD for our neurological processes!

[Hoyt]

40. You have a point. Of course, you can rebut anything you don't like on Twitter.

As long as I — and millions of others — can do that, I’m fine.

[hatrack]

13. "It also cleans stubborn stains, but is gentle enough to bathe your newborn!"

[XanaDUer2]

37. ROTFLMAO!!

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. The same idiots who will not wear a mask

would do this if it meant they could eat McDonalds with impunity.

[struggle4progress]

21. "It could help our Mars colonists communicate with far-off galaxies by ESP!

It could render personal computers obsolete by enabling us to visit porn sites directly from our our brains! It could cure anthrophobia, barophobia, chronomentrophobia, and dendrophobia!"

[vercetti2021]

23. Now that alone would be a reason to not do anything

Like the same idiots think that a vaccine has tracking devices in it. But likely might us this? Holy shit no way dude. Elon Musk would turn us all into his slaves with a flick of a button

[canetoad]

25. What if

One of the coders is a psychopath?

[PlanetBev]

27. Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode

“Number 12 Looks Just Like You.”

The one with Suzy Parker when as soon as you reached age 18, you were expected to choose a certain standard look and be pressured to enter a transformation machine to change you to the model you picked.

Musk has lots of happy ideas for us. No thanks.

[BlueIdaho]

29. If that billionaire brat is all for

Putting chips into brains to control behavior - I’m all against it.

[Initech]

30. Why am I getting Kingsman vibes from this?

[BlueIdaho]

33. Oh - nice connection!

[Initech]

34. I'm pretty sure that Samuel L. Jackson's character was modeled after Elon.

[andym]

32. Neuralink is cool technology

but I don't think that fighting obesity would be a typical application, at least at first. Helping the blind to see would be far more important for example. But the technology is in its infancy and there are others working on it as well.

[ecstatic]

35. Watch how quickly the antivaxxers and maskholes sign up in droves

The irony is just too much.

[BannonsLiver]

36. Musk fanboys out in force today I see

Let us know when the pig starts walking on water.

[Hekate]

41. Didn't all the lab monkeys die from his last brainstorm about this chip?

I seem to recall something about that…