On: Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI

[bpizzi]

Looks like the vast majority of people calling themselves 'hackers' are digusted at the idea of merely hacking their brain.

Shouldn't that be one of our main goal in life, as 'hackers'?

[tremon → bpizzi]

Hackers are intimately familiar with the fallibity of technology. If hackers shun something, maybe it's because they have reason to.

[Ygg2 → bpizzi]

Maybe because if hacking a brain, is as easy as hacking a toaster or a heart transplant, we're fucked - pretty much.

[bpizzi → Ygg2]

I get what you're referring to: 'don't brick the firmware' or 'don't mess with the MBR'. But we're talking about a device for which the main caracteristic is, arguably, its neuroplasticity.

We can do better than blindly compare hacking a brain to hacking a piece of technology made in Taiwan (with all my respects to Taiwan).

[Ygg2 → bpizzi]

Neuroplasticity won't protect you from someone generating 0.1A inside your body. You only need 4.5-5V battery to generate a killer current.

Also it can't stop someone from bricking your heart.

[TeMPOraL → bpizzi]

You have 'hackers' and the young code-me-a-website rockstars that are now also called 'hackers'. Those two groups have vastly different areas of interest.