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As with usual exponential growth -- do not blink. The exponential growth is that you see nothing for long time, until it is too late. Once you blinked you wil

As with usual exponential growth -- do not blink. The exponential growth is that you see nothing for long time, until it is too late. Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurgery startups getting funded billions of dollars. And that we are in the midst of another tech bubble.

Sabinus 2y ago
>Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurgery startups getting funded billions of dollars. And that we are in the midst of another tech bubble. I think Neuralink is going to be more like SpaceX, not like Bitcoin.
rasz 2y ago
Like self-driving? :)
- throwaway48540 2y ago
  Like self-landing rockets. :)
- kombookcha 2y ago
  Crazy how all Teslas have been self-driving robotaxis earning passive income for their owners since 2016. Truly this man will never do a flim flam. ;)
BriggyDwiggs42 2y ago
Minimally invasive is the biggest issue. It’s gonna involve removing a portion of your skull for the forseeable future, and even if it doesn’t it’ll be brain surgery. I think ai-driven surgery-free bci would be more consumer viable, but it’s not clear whether such bci can be done effectively with electrodes far as im aware. I think it’ll be a medical product and an extreme niche of high-performance gaming or something, if anything non-medical exists at all, for a long time.
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khafra 2y ago
Here's an article from a few years ago, reviewing "over 50 years of brain-computer interface history": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824107/ I'm not ready to declare exponential growth in anything but hype levels, yet; I don't see any great leaps forward concerning the fundamental problems faced by the field.
michaelteter 2y ago
Relax. We have at least two more years of AI-everything hype and startups to endure before we can change bandwagons.
kadoban 2y ago
There seems to be no particular reason to expect exponential growth here to me. Can you explain why you'd expect that?

Sabinus 2y ago

>Once you blinked you will find the HN site is full of articles about the minimal-invasive brain microsurgery startups getting funded billions of dollars. And that we are in the midst of another tech bubble. I think Neuralink is going to be more like SpaceX, not like Bitcoin.

rasz 2y ago

Like self-driving? :)

throwaway48540 2y ago
Like self-landing rockets. :)
kombookcha 2y ago
Crazy how all Teslas have been self-driving robotaxis earning passive income for their owners since 2016. Truly this man will never do a flim flam. ;)

BriggyDwiggs42 2y ago

Minimally invasive is the biggest issue. It’s gonna involve removing a portion of your skull for the forseeable future, and even if it doesn’t it’ll be brain surgery. I think ai-driven surgery-free bci would be more consumer viable, but it’s not clear whether such bci can be done effectively with electrodes far as im aware. I think it’ll be a medical product and an extreme niche of high-performance gaming or something, if anything non-medical exists at all, for a long time.

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khafra 2y ago

Here's an article from a few years ago, reviewing "over 50 years of brain-computer interface history": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824107/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7824107/ I'm not ready to declare exponential growth in anything but hype levels, yet; I don't see any great leaps forward concerning the fundamental problems faced by the field.

michaelteter 2y ago

Relax. We have at least two more years of AI-everything hype and startups to endure before we can change bandwagons.

kadoban 2y ago

There seems to be no particular reason to expect exponential growth here to me. Can you explain why you'd expect that?