[austinjp]

Genuine question: why "should" we be going in this direction?

[rongopo]

Is curiosity a good answer for you? For me it is.

[EricMausler]

To fight neurodegenerative diseases

[austinjp]

Except the lab doing this make no mention of treating disease. They want to "shortcut machine learning" by using living tissue to perform tasks: https://corticallabs.com/

[EricMausler]

Well they sound like mad scientists. Hopefully The research is still helpful for medical advancements

[seydor]

because it's bottom-up, as opposed to mouse studies that impose our own ideas and record from a tiny fraction of brain cells

[serf]

post-apocalyptic horrible scenarios aside, there are plenty of therapeutic reasons why it would be nice to have neuron-level control of brain tissue.

[moffkalast]

Because we can, and if we don't someone less ethical will.

[trgn]

"if we don't someone less ethical will."

But they still will, why wouldn't they if supposed ethical researchers do as well. I've heard this sort of argument before, and I understand the reasoning behind it.

[eli_gottlieb]

We do what we must, because we can.