Musk is indeed a lying fuckweasel, but this claim isn't unreasonable. It's something that's been done under lab conditions before.
The limitations are more about medical ethics. This is a device that's potentially painful and damaging, and requires extremely invasive surgery. It has to not just work, but keep on working; it's worse-than-useless if it fails in a week or even in a month. We need to know what the side effects are.
I'm willing to believe Musk when he makes a believable technological claim about an existing technology. (As opposed to a dubious claim about a future one, like the hyperloop.) But I'm certain he's pushed the ethical considerations to, and well past, the limit.
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Musk is indeed a lying fuckweasel, but this claim isn't unreasonable. It's something that's been done under lab conditions before.
The limitations are more about medical ethics. This is a device that's potentially painful and damaging, and requires extremely invasive surgery. It has to not just work, but keep on working; it's worse-than-useless if it fails in a week or even in a month. We need to know what the side effects are.
I'm willing to believe Musk when he makes a believable technological claim about an existing technology. (As opposed to a dubious claim about a future one, like the hyperloop.) But I'm certain he's pushed the ethical considerations to, and well past, the limit.