Why The Neuralink Human Trials Will Help Humanity

A viewer with quadriplegia asked about any innovations in disability technologies that could help. Just so happened, Neuralink recently received FDA approval to begin human trials. Plus many other exciting developments in AI, robotics, and stem cell therapy. And that’s just the first question of today’s Lightning Round Video. Enjoy!

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0:00 - Intro Remix
0:50 - Current Accessibility Technologies
3:59 - The Current State of CRISPR
5:46 - Bard or Bing?
6:02 - Immediate Threats
8:40 - Comedic Sense
12:05 - Favorite Thing in the Universe
14:00 - Sponsor - Henson Shaving

[Tall_Hairs]

I know this is a controversial topic but can we all take a moment to appreciate Joe’s Lightning Round intro remix?

[Judith_Remkes]

6:23 How do you boil a frog? Don't throw it into boiling water, it'll jump out. Put it in cold water and slowly heat it up, the frog will stay in the water untill it's too late.
We're frogs.

[RvonBerg]

I gotta finally point out, just how incredible of an actor Joe really is. Some intros just leave me staring at it and I wonder where he picked up these skills.

[StarSnack]

I love the transition of your beard at the end, that was amazing. I almost didn't catch it happening! I love how you are really finding a great creative outlet here. Your sense of humor and strangeness are so fun and lovely to see. Love you Joe

[joyl]

Regarding the spinal injuries - there was a recent breakthrough where someone was able to walk again thanks to a computer chip implanted in his body. That seems incredibly helpful to me.

[KitsuneLeo]

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[scienceface]

I actually went looking last year to see what's up with CRISPR, turns out there was a bunch of human trials on people (mostly kids) with rare and completely paralyzing genetic disorders or genetic disorders with high mortality rates between 2015-2019. The crazy part was (in small trials of 10-20 participants, mind) a success rate between 60-90%. Some are only partial success, but some were able to stop taking their medications entirely. Toddlers previously doomed to be bedbound for life were learning to crawl, I almost burst into tears reading these studies. Can't find them for the life of me right now. How is that not front page news?

[pattoneill]

Joe, your story about Monty Python and the Holy Grail hit a chord with me. I was in London when the movie was first released to theaters. I had a bad case of bronchitis, but went anyway. Whenever I laughed, my lungs would really hurt, but I couldn't help it. I swear, I left the theater with my lungs clear. I laughed myself well.

[DanRyanCarter]

Someone made a great point in a video I watched recently about making human shaped robots. They said "why wouldn't we design them like humans? The modern world has already been designed for the human form, so if we want robot helpers, making them human shaped requires the fewest adjustments."

[davesvoboda]

I think this is the first time any of my regular subscriptions has ever got me to watch the sponsor message all the way through. Subtle and clever.

[nicolasduguay]

This lightning round video jingle is everything the internet is about.

[danielbudney]

I'm old enough to have started shaving with one of the metal "safety razor" things from Olden Tymes. I switched to cartridges in college, when my "welcome kit" included a double-bladed unit which was lighter, easier to use, and gave a better shave. I switched to the Henson razor a few months ago, and it's solid feel and light aluminum leave me very satisfied ... and I'm not wasting any more plastic! Thanks, Joe Scott!

[ChamberlainWasWrong]

Neuralink has major dystopian potential. Even if they won't have predatory practices (which is best case scenario, very realistic that it would be predatory), it's a major cybersecurity threat. Nothing is “unhackable”, there is only hard to hack and slow to hack, and someone smart enough could hack it eventually (no need to explain the danger of that).
*Edit*
I might not have explained it well enough, but I'm not saying that we all will get hacked and killed. All I am saying is that it is possible, without some tech we don't have that uses something like sound waves to resonate with brains or something else new. And the amount of encryption and security that could be used directly on it, is low. This is because the more advanced it is, it needs more compute. More compute means more electricity, more size, more cost, more complications. Stuff that, on the level of it being hard enough to hack that hackers will be very discouraged to hack it, will need a large, expensive and hot SoC. Don't forget that the pay-off if it is hacked is very high as it is potentially life-threatening, so even if they put state-of-the-art protection, some hacker could and would hack, and many will try (if this type of tech spreads to begin with). TL;DR, it's not immune to hacks.




(i seem to be either controversial or popular or both, which is good in my eyes as it will mean more people thinking about this more thoroughly.)

[onesunghero]

Every monkey in the neuralink trials has died.

[christophercrowder]

I actually find some comfort in the fact that I share a general sense of humor with one of the smartest, generalist YouTubers on the platform.

[Mevlar]

You are the only Youtuber I follow that I've actually purchased the sponsered products for, and I've done it a couple of times now. Not that I'm for or against sponsers, but the products you promote are actually useful to me.

[markedis]

Neuralink scares the hell out of me, perhaps because I grew up watching Dr Who and the Cybermen. The machine that implants Neuralink looks exactly like a Cybermat. Serious chills down the spine.

[SVPunk]

I have a "type" of muscular dystrophy and have been bedridden for a few years now, Neuralink or some other Brain Computer Interface is going to become very important to me. As someone who has been gaming since my dad bought an Atari 7800 (dating myself a bit there) being able to continue to game and interact with online friends when my condition progresses further than I am at as of now will be huge for my mental health.

[RobVespa]

When I was barely a teen, during a college sibling weekend, my sister took me to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail at a midnight showing... it was the first (and only) time I ever laughed out loud during a movie. We went to see it again the following night. Such a good time.

[wsufan]

If there's one thing we've learned in the last 1, 000 miles of retreat, it's that Soviet agriculture is in dire need of mechanization.