Normally the headlines say "could" and "may" and "potentially", this one is being brave and saying "will"... ive yet to see any of these bold claim stories bare fruit

>Also title itself says "paralyzed limbs".

Who cares what the title says?

In an ideal world, people would read the actual published journal article. The bare minimum should be reading the entirety of the public facing article because science is all about the details, and headlines are not. Now we can get into the quality of science journalism (generally, it's shit), but this article actually addresses your exact criticisms directly and clearly.

The situation "they" present (if one reads the article, which you clearly didn't) is both restoration of function, AND integration of artificial limbs.

Besides that, the linked article talks quite a bit about the specific problem this is solving (scar tissue development) and other possible uses (prosthetics and BCIs).

Off the top of my head, using a similar strategy may be a benefit to things such as deep brain stimulators or other CNS implants that are upstream of the spinal cord, since glial scarring is a huge problem there too.

So, no - this isn't a "dead end" for the situation they present it, because they present multiple situations and you focused (incorrectly) on one. Turns out, reading past the headline is often helpful when discussing recent developments in cutting edge, detail oriented fields.

You fundamentally misunderstand what the word 'punk' means

It’s even deeper than that, it would really hurt the antidepressant market. They would rather do maintenance forever than cure a single person. Providing a cure to non deadly lifetime ailments isn’t the most profitable thing. How do you even value something like that? Whatever it is it’s going to cause backlash and they damn well know it. So the prudent course is to keep this life changing medication Federally on the same level as crack (I think the DEA has opened themselves to a lawsuit on this one as they have admitted it is medicine and non addictive yet it remains schedule 1 contrary to their own admission)

Hmmm it is a lot of assumptions.

But, if it turns out there are microorganisms there, that basically puts the kibosh on us being the only intelligent life, or even life in general being rare in the cosmos.

2 spots in one system means that shit is probably everywhere

minus 320 degree salt solution viruses and fungi, though?

>"The challenge with integrating artificial limbs, or restoring function to arms or legs, is extracting the information from the nerve and getting it to the limb so that function is restored."

Also title itself says "paralyzed limbs". I criticize the restoration function of those implamants, not artificial limb replacement.

Yeah, go cause a train wreck and then compare what happens to you to what ends up happening to the shareholders of Norfolk Southern. You'll lose more than your investments, let me tell ya!

He's certainly owned companies. Where's the revolution though?

The problem I see with these Musk arguments on Reddit or elsewhere is that people involved choose to be very categorical. Truth, of course, is somewhere in between.

Is he a super genius visionary his disciples want us to think? No. But is he an absolute scum of the earth the other side insists? No, too.

He has his shortcomings, as we all do. But saying he’s the worst or being outraged by his actions is overreaction.

Even if he is a multimillionaires son, that’s usually not enough to succeed in life and become a billionaire he is. Or else there would be hell of a lot more billionaires in the world.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me

>Tesla still uses lithium-ion batteries which is the norm for any EVs today,

And unheard of like 6 years ago. Are we just going to pretend auto companies would have switched to EVs the way they are now if Tesla hadn't come along and started to eat their lunch? That's a revolution.

SpaceX revolutionized space if you were already in the space industry. For average people, we won't see the ramifications until starship, agreed, but everyone in the space industry felt the revolution that was 2015 when SpaceX landed the falcon 9 for the first time

They are though. Especially in situations like that... For anything environment related the corporate veil doesn't exist, and shareholders and executives can be held personally liable in both criminal and civil cases... Like, people routinely hold owners and executives responsible for what their companies do... When Tesla does something shitty everyone acts like Elon Musk is 110% behind it and responsible for it. But then when Tesla does something good they all act like he has no responsibility for the company's actions and results.

PayPal was pretty revolutionary. Also maybe Tesla didn't revolutionize electric cars but it definitely brought them into the mainstream, forcing other car companies to make more, newer electric models to compete. Also Tesla's open patent policy is pretty cool

Define wealthy? His dad was an engineer and mom a regular model (not super model). That's upper middle class at best. "But the emerald mine" his dad invested $40k of his life savings on a 50% stake in a mine and doubled his money over 10 years which barely beats the stock market.

If it's not available to our most vulnerable in society, then it is not revolutionary

Stem cell reliant means massive push back from the right unfortunately.

Stop spreading the lie that Elon didn't found Tesla and SpaceX. First, SpaceX was soley founded by Elon and he's been the CEO and chief engineer since inception.

Tesla was Co founded by 5 people. Elon musk and JB straubel were independently going to start an EV company using tech from AC propulsion. AC propulsion then introduced them to Mark and Martain because they wanted to do the same thing, and the 4 decided to team up and musk provided the initial funding for Tesla. Tesla was nothing but a piece of paper when they teamed up. The courts decided all of them get to call themselves founders because there's no hard and fast rule of what counts as being a founder.

Idk, one of the core tenets of cyberpunk is corporate dystopia, and having your limbs disabled for defaulted payment is pretty damn dystopian.

So, it's basically the thing Krieger put in Ray to make his legs work again?

That is, the part that did all the work. The metal bones were for funzies.

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I'm having a little fun here. I know you're talking about "responsible" in the sense that they get the profit. I'm saying "responsible" in the more typical sense of responsibility. Like being responsible if your train derailed and dumped poison everywhere. That's the joke. ;)

Because they are... This may be news to you, but a company without funding doesn't do anything, and a company without solid direction and leadership doesn't do anything for long.

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You say that and then you say "the person funding and running the company is absolutely responsible for what it does". So you can see how I'm confused.