"It Is Literally Everything": Desperate, Vulnerable Elon-Musk-Believers Beg Neuralink For Disease Help

"It Is Literally Everything": Desperate, Vulnerable Elon-Musk-Believers Beg Neuralink For Disease Help Tyler Durden Sun, 08/30/2020 - 17:05 All we can say is that we hope Elon Musk's questionable Neuralink demonstration that was given days ago was legitimate. Because otherwise, the hope Musk is drumming up in desperate people who suffer from ailments (and whose family members and close friends suffer from ailments) would only be akin to the faith healers and psychic hotlines of the 1990's.  While we don't necessarily endorse the idea that Musk faked the Neuralink presentation (although after Tesla's Solar Roof Tile and battery swap presentations, we would certainly have good reason to), we wanted to highlight the gravity of claims that Musk has made about Neuralink. It goes beyond cleaning up your carbon footprint and pulls at the emotional heartstrings of many who are suffering. Musk has claimed that Neuralink would eventually be able to "help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer's, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence". This sent droves of desperate people looking for relief to Twitter, as was documented by the Twitter account @GretaMusk in a thread on Saturday. "It is literally everything," one person wrote. "I can't stop crying...it means help for my son." Another wrote: "My daughter has Rett syndrome" and "I wonder if Neuralink could potentially help people like her." Others sought relief from PTSD, bi-polar disorder and lupus.  This is what happens when a serial #fraud appears on society's center stage. cc: @MelaynaLokosky #Tesla $TSLAQ 1/3 pic.twitter.com/oetCwobfUf — Greta Musk (@GretaMusk) August 30, 2020 Other people Tweeted, seeking relief for their friends and family members from Alzheimers, dystonia and pontocerebellar hypoplasia: This is what happens when a narcissistic sociopath is allowed to promise everything without being responsible for anything. cc: @montana_skeptic #Tesla $TSLAQ 2/3 pic.twitter.com/DsoUBAqZjs — Greta Musk (@GretaMusk) August 30, 2020 "I hope you can look into helping people like me," one person wrote, "...who suffer from trigeminal neuralgia". Others continued to ask for relief from ailments like OCD, depression and anxiety - even blindness. This is what happens when a celebrity billionaire is regarded as humanity's savior, and offers false hope to the hopeless. cc: @Tweetermeyer #Tesla $TSLAQ 3/3 pic.twitter.com/yCV5jQ614b — Greta Musk (@GretaMusk) August 30, 2020 Former neuroscience researcher turned Gizmodo journalist Shoshana Wodinsky was - well, less than convinced and less than enthused by the demo. She called Neuralink's claims "impossible" and said, on the night of the demonstration: "I did not spend 5 years getting a neuroscience degree to watch this manchild literally brainfuck a pig on stage."  mfw elon fanboys are still blowing up my tl bc i pointed out neuralink’s claims are impossible like 24 hrs ago pic.twitter.com/DyQMM6BDZR — shoshana wodinsky (@swodinsky) August 29, 2020 Neuralink has said that it aims to "implant wireless brain-computer interfaces that include thousands of electrodes in the most complex human organ to help cure neurological conditions like Alzheimer's, dementia and spinal cord injuries and ultimately fuse humankind with artificial intelligence," according to Reuters. Musk continued to tout that line of thinking, stating on Friday: "An implantable device can actually solve these problems." To demonstrate it, Musk showed what appeared to be a demonstration of Neuralink on a pig named Gertrude. Musk narrated: "The beeps you are hearing are real-time signals from the Neuralink in Gertrude's head. This Neuralink connects to neurons that are in her snout. Whenever she shuffles around and touches something with her snout that sends out neural spikes that are detected here." Here's what the pig demonstration looked like when it happened:  Elon Musk tests Neuralink On Pigs during Live Demo #Neuralink #ElonMusk #neurolink pic.twitter.com/0ylu7DFVwF — Luke Gilfillan (@LukeGilfillan1) August 29, 2020 "On the screen you can see each of the neural spikes," he continued. Talking about the safety of the product, he said: "I could have a Neuralink right now and you wouldn't know. Maybe I do." "It's kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk continued.  But, as we noted, not everyone was sold on the demonstration: Did the pig have a scar on its head? Was there an X-Ray? Did its head respond to a metal detector? Did Elon Musk offer any proof the pig actually had a chip in its head? — Quoth the Raven (@QTRResearch) August 30, 2020 For the sake of those holding out hope, we hope Elon was on the up-and-up. But again, we aren't talking about people's cars here, we're talking about people's lives. If we were you, we'd tread lightly, Elon...
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