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by kken 2120 days ago
> “So in summary I would say this is solid engineering but mediocre neuroscience. Finally, I think it is unfortunate that they are presenting their work in this way, rather than publishing peer-reviewed papers that would allow their claims to be scrutinised, but I guess this is something that we will have to get used to as neural interfaces move from the academic to the commercial sector.”

Well, and this is exactly what needs to be done to further this area as it is the part that's not completely addressed by academia. Any kind of academic research obviously focusses on generating one-time results for publication.

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So companies making claims that cannot hold up to scrutiny is the basis for technological advancement, is that your argument? I ask because what you are doing is criticise the scholars desire for a Musk owned company to have their claims fact checked...