Technology

He wants to use this technology to "cure autism," which sounds like it's coming from a position of self-loathing, projected onto everybody else. If he wants to stick chips into his brain, fine, but personally, I don't need a cure for the disease of being me.

I wouldn't trust Musk if he told me that water makes things wet.

He's a snake oil salesman.

As someone who likes the idea of transhumanism:

I'ma fuckin' pass, dog.

Just like complete FSD is only a year away... And how about that Cybertruck

I want a brain chip in theory.

I don't want any current human to have anything to do with it. The average human's comprehension of life, consciousness, what it is to be human etc are so far behind ideal, I wouldn't trust anyone currently alive to start testing a direct brain-computer interface.

In several hundred years when we have Trek style space communism, sure!

Elon should be the first guinea pig, then, see if they can install a chip to make his brain work right

The future we don't want

This is completely dystopian.

As others have said, Elon should test this on himself before he tests it on others, if he's really so confident in it.

It is inevitable that this will have negative health effects, and when that happens, Elon will just wipe his hands and say "not my problem".

My initial response was a recollection of the plot of The Kingsman.

Sticking implants in brains for fun is stupidity on a stick.

Implants are already used to control some forms of epilepsy, however these are on the vagus nerve and not in the brain. This sort of application makes sense.