Comments by "Edward Cullen" (@edwardcullen1739) on "Musk Promises Superhuman Vision, Experts Say It’s Nonsense" video.

@SethGrantham-k1x Who believed that the "mark 1" Neuralink would work as well as it appears to have? I certainly didn't - I expected it to be barely effective and rejected by the body after 3 months... So, maybe, just maybe, it's okay to hope?
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Sometimes, he puts ideas out there, hoping that someone else will pick them up... Isn't Neuralink, Tesla, SpaceX andX/Twitter enough?
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@sacr3 😂 Yeah... Look at Starship compared to Ariane 6. ESA is, without hyperbole, 20 years behind SpaceX.
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@cactusman07pim Right, okay and this invalidates my point, how, exactly? As I've already pointed out: SpaceX is 20 years ahead of ESA. Just stop, your jealousy is showing.
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I think a large element of what is said about Elon is disingenuous; people see him as "the rocket" or "EV guy" and do not listen to what he actually says. In his latest Lex Friedman interview, when talking about resolution, he clearly discussed the possibility of using electrodes to create interference patterns that enable higher resolution that the number of electrodes themselves would imply. (This is the same approach used in lithography for producing microchips at smaller and smaller resolutions.) To me, this indicates an extremely sophisticated understanding of the potential ways forward, even if some of them turn out to be blind alleys (no pun intended). As to brain mapping... This is tricky. The visual cortex fixes around 8, and, I believe, is one of the least plastic of all regions (not my area of expertise, but have some issues with my eyesight, so have done some research...). That said, our brains are incredibly adaptable and it may be the case that the brain of a patient will simply adapt to the incoming signals, obviating the need for such deep pre-mapping technology. I for one am going to remain optimistic that we truly are in the "it's just an engineering problem now" phase of development.
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And if that makes sthe world a better place, this would be bad, how?
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@howtoappearincompletely9739 "superhuman" doesn't necessarily mean resolution, it could mean zoom or simply infrared and ultraviolet. Frankly, if you crack the core problem of integrating with the visual cortex, adding the options for UV, IR and zoom seems like it would be trivial...
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@dehweh2297 Precisely. Sometimes, I wonder if people would rather prevent the development, just so they can get one over on Elon 🤷‍♂️
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We could well see a future where "option a" is retinal replacement, and "option b" is direct cortical stimulation, reserved for those with option nerve damage (there is a ?virus? that specifically targets the optic nerve, causing blindness).
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