Following up on yesterday's "Musk's Mind-Machine Interface, Neuralink, Reports Progress: Monkeys Now Playing Pong".
From Marginal Revolution:
Which are the most striking elements of Monkey Pong?
What comes to your mind is an interesting kind of Rorschach test. A few options (not necessarily endorsed by me) are:
1. Where did they get that background from?
2. Can I have some of what that monkey is drinking?
3. Wealth concentrations are going to make IRB regulations less relevant over time.
4. How many people want to play Pong against a wired monkey? Will we employ or enslave monkeys to enable this? What is in fact the relevant difference?....
....MUCH MORE
And, as usual, his commenters run the gamut from earnest to earnestly demented.
