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Cake day: October 13th, 2023

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  • The one I live in: Finland

    The only thing I don’t like is the short summer and long winter but I try and convince myself that it’s the 4 distinctive seasons and the shitty winter that makes me truly appreciate summer. It’s also good for the human character which probably partly explains why we’ve been voted the happiest country in the world who knows how many years in a row. It may be less true now but it’s still in our genes; in the past you better be nice to your neighbour because once the winter comes and food runs out, your life may depend on them.







  • I don’t agree with the premise. Being a shitty person doesn’t mean everything they do is also shitty. Musk singlehandedly popularized electric cars, he’s the first person to develop re-usable rockets thus cutting the price of transporting stuff to orbit by over a half and he’s also responsible for being the first to create a truly global satellite internet effectively for the whole world. If you can’t give him credit for any of that then you’re simply just not looking at it objectively but rather with emotionally motivated reasoning.





  • I doubt it has any use in reality.

    Some possible future use cases would be things like:

    • Restoring Mobility: Bypassing spinal cord damage to regain limb control.

    • Treating Neurological Disorders: Modulating brain activity for conditions like Parkinson’s or epilepsy.

    • Restoring Vision and Hearing: Bypassing damaged pathways to directly stimulate the brain.

    • Enhancing Communication: Translating thoughts into speech for those with severe impairments.

    • Prosthetic Control: Enabling natural movement with brain-controlled prosthetics.

    • Treating Mental Health: Targeting brain circuits to manage depression or PTSD.

    • Memory Restoration: Helping those with memory loss, like in Alzheimer’s.


  • Didn’t it already fuck up in the first human guinea pig?

    Nope. He’s doing better than ever. Some of the threads god pulled out because it turns out that brain moves inside the skull more than they anticipated but they’ve made up for that with optimization and system updates. The performance of the first unit is better today than it has ever been. This is coming directly from Noland himself who has been quest on several podcasts.



  • The first chip works better now than the day it was impanted. It’s not exactly that it’s “failing”, some of the thread got pulled out because it turns out human brain moves inside the skull more than they anticipated. However they’ve managed to make up for that with optimization so the performance today is better than it has ever been.