Neuralink - Elon Musk's Next Adventure (Part 1)
Bo and I discuss Neuralink, the latest announced venture by Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, and PayPal. This is the first part, which focuses on some of what they've announced through Tim Urban's Wait but Why post, some of the possible implications of this type of a technology, what it might be like to live with this type of a technology, some of the potential problems with how this technology has been described so far, and some critiques of the claims that are made.
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