The company, which implants experimental brain chips to help paralyzed patients, raised $600 million from private investors, people familiar with the matter said.
Looks at it loosely: Well it looks like cool tech, and the first to offer it might have a new market all alone and can earn money and…
puts on tin hat have you looked around lately? Being able to directly access brains and probably inject God knows what signals to maybe be able to alter behavior of people and/or literally brainwash them is a sure way to get funding in late stage capitalism. [They] just want to be on the “correct side” of this. [They] just want control!
You can’t expect research to be self-funding. And it doesn’t look like begging.
What’s the business model?
Looks at it loosely: Well it looks like cool tech, and the first to offer it might have a new market all alone and can earn money and…
puts on tin hat have you looked around lately? Being able to directly access brains and probably inject God knows what signals to maybe be able to alter behavior of people and/or literally brainwash them is a sure way to get funding in late stage capitalism. [They] just want to be on the “correct side” of this. [They] just want control!
Continue the research until the result would be self-funding.
That’s how researchers work. First you pour resources into it, then it might provide you with something sellable. Eventually. Maybe. Or not.
So, no business model.
Yes, no business model. Many things don’t have it. Even the Sun.
Is the sun a business?
A research company isn’t a business either. Even if the formal de jure blabbering states otherwise.
So Neuralink isn’t a commercial company?
De facto – no. Research project.