Neuralink
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Neuralink is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between February 12, 2021 and July 21, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Elon Musk agreed to voluntarily withdraw the project until Neuralink could find a way to make pedestrians Driverify-compatible”; “I’m looking at you, Neuralink”; “the first Neuralink has been implanted into a human being”. It most often appears alongside ACX, Elon Musk, fMRI.
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- Category: Organizations
- Mention count: 5
- Issue count: 5
- First seen: February 12, 2021
- Last seen: July 21, 2025
Appears In
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- 24
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- Press Any Key For Bay Area House Party
Related Pages
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- ACX (2 shared issues)
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- Elon Musk (2 shared issues)
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- fMRI (2 shared issues)
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- predictive processing (2 shared issues)
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- 538 (1 shared issues)
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- AAPI Protection League (1 shared issues)
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- Aaron (1 shared issues)
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- Aaronson (1 shared issues)
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- African Gray Parrots (1 shared issues)
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- AI Alignment (1 shared issues)
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- AI Doom (1 shared issues)
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- AI-Fizzle (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Banned because: in the Phoenix suburb where the system was being tested, a pedestrian and Driverify-equipped car reached an intersection at the same time. The car dutifully wired a bid, but the pedestrian failed to respond. The car interpreted this as a bid of zero and ran into her. The pedestrian might have survived, except that the car realized it was at fault and tried to wire a fortune in Driverify directly into her nervous system, causing cardiac arrest. Elon Musk agreed to voluntarily withdraw the project until Neuralink could find a way to make pedestrians Driverify-compatible.
· Which is super interesting for thinking about experimental design. On the one hand, it shows that you can find some clever "hacks" to find useful data that is otherwise hidden - in a world where fMRIs have only been done on humans, being able to do one on any other animal is a huge win. Lucky for us we've spent the last 30,000 years or so prepping a suitable experimental subject. On the other hand, did somebody say "sampling bias"? How much of what we learn about dog brains will turn out not to generalize like we'd hope? Let's just set aside that dogs have been selected based on ability to empathize with, listen to, and otherwise get along with humans for ~30,000 years, which might result in their cognition being more like ours than other mammals. Even without that, what if we find similarities between humans and dogs that are coincidental and blithely assume they must be common to all mammals? There's a chance we're suffering from the "drunk under the lamppost" effect. Hopefully as we get more and better technology for understanding what's going on in brains (I'm looking at you, Neuralink), we'll find ways to point it at other animals and find out.
Both 15% and 32% are low numbers, but Israelis in the comments bring up that there aren’t scheduled elections in 2024. So if Bibi didn’t resign and his coalition partners didn’t desert him, he could potentially cling on. And nobody clings to power more ferociously than Benjamin Netanyahu. That recent spike comes from Musk’s claim three hours ago that the first Neuralink has been implanted into a human being.
Inline links: Musk’s claim three hours ago
That recent spike comes from Musk’s claim three hours ago that the first Neuralink has been implanted into a human being.
Inline links: Musk’s claim three hours ago
Link two brains using technologies such as NeuraLink. Thoughts should be able to be shared across brains if and only if the link transmits oscillatory signals.
“We compete with Neuralink to serve the paralyzed population. People who can only move their eye muscles and nothing else. Sometimes their vision is too blurry to even focus on anything beyond a few inches ahead of them. So we thought - what’s a proven low-bandwidth way to interact with the world? And the answer was obviously text-based adventure games. With the latest generation of LLMs and some scavenged Waymo LIDARs, we finally made it a reality. Here! Try it out! In fact, keep it - it’s not like we’re going to get any money for it, Zuck poached our whole sales team.”