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Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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Wow Valve was on a great series of wins, this is a rare loss for them. Who wants this? Best case people will be sitting in meetings playing Half Life 3 in their brains. I don't really want that.
Quadriplegics. Epileptics. People with Parkinson's or multiple sclerosis.
we're a long fucking way from helping any of those people with this stuff. this is for all the multimillionaires out there.
We are currently helping people with this sort of tech
which people, which tech, and where?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/epilepsy-brain-implant-1.7245178
Here's one example. Google it yourself if you're interested in learning more.
that is DBS and it is very different from what this article in this topic talking about. DBS has been around for a long time, used for other purposes like parkinsons and essential tremor. I'm very familiar with it because i have a form of parkinsons.
And how would you presume we reach a level that could help them without starting somewhere? Do you think this kind of tech just pops up, fully formed?
You're looking at this with a very closed mind. This isnt (currently) being designed for people to just do normal computer stuff but in their brain. This technology has huge potential for improving prosthetics and treating neurological disorders.
I want shit like this. I want to be a cyborg. I do not want them to kill hundreds of apes for it though.
Reminder: billionaires are apes... (For legal reasons, this is a joke)
If it gets me closer to Half-Life 3, then pipe that shit into my brains