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TheresJustNoMoney

Could implanting neuralink devices into the heads of small children make them have the mental faculties and cognitive level of adults overnight?

Could Decades of education be sidestepped due to the neuralink implants giving them access to the total sum of all human knowledge?

Could they become as functionable as adults, albeit while still little, thanks to neuralink upgrading their brains?

How young can a child safely have a neuralink device implanted? What else could they become after the implanting of said device is complete, aside from miniature adults?

  

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[–]kaitster2 5 points 5 months ago* 

I feel that education is only one step towards being an adult. Without the experiences and life lessons all we would have are just little books running around. Also, I would have to wonder the emotional state and how it would affect the child as they grow older. Would any important component that you learn socially be missing? Compelling question.

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[–]Dana_Nana 6 points 5 months ago 

They become robots, this is what they become.

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[–]feralboyTony 2 points 5 months ago 

That idea is just so evil and so scary.

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[–]feralboyTony 1 point 5 months ago 

The idea of turning children into living machines and effectively destroying their humanity is evil.

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] 0 points 5 months ago 

Because I handle adults better than I handle rude, demanding and misbehaving children. If neuralink promises to make children into miniature adults after a surgical implant session, I would embrace it and hopefully my future wife would as well.

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[–]feralboyTony 4 points 5 months ago 

So just for your own convenience you would destroy the humanity of children (including any children you may have) and turn them into living machines. I would be opposed to doing something like that even to an adult and even more so to a child.The idea of turning any human being into a biological robot is so intrinsically evil that it would be wrong to do it to anyone even if they were an adult and even if they consented. You are advocating doing it to children who can’t even consent.That’s just so very wrong.

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[–]beer-engineer 2 points 5 months ago 

You shouldn't have kids then

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[–]feralboyTony 2 points 5 months ago 

He certainly shouldn’t have children.

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[–]maniahum 1 point 5 months ago 

Honestly, you just should not have kids. If you cannot withstand developmentally appropriate behavior, you should not be a parent. You do not have to even be a parent. I hope your future wife does not want kids because you honestly don't deserve them.

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[–]gobbomode 2 points 5 months ago 

Was this posted by a neuralink employee? I feel like the same people who are ok with torturing monkeys (I'm normally in favor of animal testing, but what they've done crosses the line) would also ask this question. Is this the endgame for all of Elon's kids, lol

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] 2 points 5 months ago 

Wait, how are animals treated at the Neuralink testing labs? I would hope PETA would intervene on Neuralink if torture is in fact happening there!

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[–]gobbomode 2 points 5 months ago 

Here's an article from Wired about it: https://www.wired.com/story/neuralink-uc-davis-monkey-photos-videos-secret/

It was in the news (well, locally) about 2.5 years ago. They had some monkeys die under somewhat suspicious circumstances. My dad did lab animal care for Stanford all through the 80s-00s and I work in the biological sciences, so I understand the necessity of animal testing and I am comfortable with it from an ethical point of view, but what I have heard crosses the line. I hear they've moved on to human testing and I definitely would not want my family member getting one of these devices.

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[–]embryosarentppl 2 points 5 months ago 

No. They're far from that. I had part of my brain sucked out and Theodore Berger from the University of South Central has been on this for a decade. Ain't happening anytime soon sadly. Id so be one of their guinea pigs

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[–]WolfgangDelta 2 points 5 months ago 

This isn't really a psychology question but I think it's more of a question of whether that (assuming the tech worked perfectly) they would 'have' anything. It's more of a philosophical question, like the Mary's Room thought experiment (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument).

I would argue no because students already have access to the sum total of human knowledge but don't have the ability to process and apply it all without guidance/experience

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[–]eveabyss 0 points 5 months ago 

……

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