July 29, 2025 • 9 mins
Is the future of humanity dependent on the groundbreaking potential of brain-machine interfaces?
Explore Neuralink’s Telepathy and its success in restoring mobility for paralyzed patients with us. What about the ethical implications of granting access to our thoughts, Elon Musk's vision for enhancing human cognition in an AI-dominated future, and the possibilities of telepathic communication and augmented senses?
As we outline Neuralink’s ambitious roadmap toward 2030, we invite you to reflect on the merging of technology and humanity.
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0:00 Intro to Neuralink
1:00 Real Medical Technology
1:40 Human Liberation
2:35 Civilizational Survival
4:50 Singularity and Transhumanism
6:40 Timelines
8:00 A Connected Future
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Josh:
So this is a different type of episode, but you got to stick with me because (00:03):
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Josh: one of the most interesting frontiers that I've been personally obsessed with (00:06):
undefined
Josh: is brain computer interfaces, especially Neuralink, which is what I believe (00:09):
undefined
Josh: to be the last personal device that will ever need to make. (00:13):
undefined
Josh: As I went down this rabbit hole, I was fascinated at how awe-inspiring that (00:16):
undefined
Josh: technology is, but also its inevitability. (00:19):
undefined
Josh: This technology is here today and it's becoming sci-fi level great incredibly (00:21):
undefined
Josh: quickly. So what you're about to listen to is a short video essay on just that. (00:25):
undefined
Josh: It's most exciting to watch this visually, either through YouTube or you can (00:29):
undefined
Josh: even watch the video straight from your Spotify feed. (00:32):
undefined
Josh: Everything you need is at limitless.bankless.com or you can click the link in (00:34):
undefined
Josh: the top of this episode description. (00:37):
undefined
Josh: Thank you as always for the support and sharing these episodes with any friends (00:39):
undefined
Josh: who might be interested in this cool frontier crazy tech stuff. (00:42):
undefined
Josh: So with that said, let's get right into this mini episode on Neuralink. (00:45):
undefined
Josh: Would you allow a developer you've never met to install software in your brain (00:48):
undefined
Josh: that gives total access to all of your thoughts, your memories, (00:52):
undefined
Josh: and everything that makes you, you, the same way you install an update on your iPhone? (00:55):
undefined
Josh: The knee-jerk reaction is probably no. That's creepy. It's weird enough that (01:00):
undefined
Josh: my phone knows everything about me. (01:04):
undefined
Josh: The last thing I want is a company to see my literal thoughts and fears. (01:05):
undefined
Josh: But what if I made you a few promises? (01:09):
undefined
Josh: Like this chip can remember your dreams and memories and then play them back (01:12):
undefined
Josh: as if you were reliving them for the first time, fully viscerally. (01:15):
undefined
Josh: It'll hijack your senses and you'll feel everything you felt as if you were (01:18):
undefined
Josh: right back there for the very first time. (01:22):
undefined
Josh: It can give you super sight that allows you to see night vision or infrared rays. (01:24):
undefined
Josh: It can teach you the language overnight before you get on that plane to Japan. (01:28):
undefined
Josh: It could cure you of injuries, curing paralysis and blindness. (01:32):
undefined
Josh: It can remove your depression, fix hearing loss, remove that annoying tinnitus you have. (01:35):
undefined
Josh: It can stop your loved ones from suffering from Alzheimer's, (01:39):
undefined
Josh: dementia, and strokes. Oh, and you'll be able to communicate with others totally telepathically. (01:42):
undefined
Josh: Suddenly, this sounds a little more compelling, doesn't it? (01:47):
undefined
Josh: If you're thinking this is just like an episode of Black Mirror, (01:50):
undefined
Josh: you're right, but this technology is real, and just this week, (01:52):
undefined
Josh: two more patients answered yes to that question. (01:56):
undefined
Josh: They received the chip that will eventually do all these amazing things, (01:59):
undefined
Josh: but for now, in these patients, it's doing just one job, and that's fixing people's paralysis. (02:02):
undefined
Josh: The company is called Neuralink, and their first product is called Telepathy, (02:07):
undefined
Josh: and just last week, they embedded the Telepathy chip into patients number eight and number nine. (02:11):
undefined
Josh: These are some of the first people in the world to benefit from this technology, (02:15):
undefined
Josh: and the results are pretty remarkable. (02:18):
undefined
Josh: We'll get into that, but first let's peel back the skull figuratively and see (02:21):
undefined
Josh: exactly how this thing works and why it matters. (02:24):
undefined
Josh: So there's two reasons Neuralink is important, and they actually couldn't be more different. (02:27):
undefined
Josh: The first is human liberation. If your spinal cord quits on you or you become (02:31):
undefined
Josh: paralyzed, telepathy can give you digital hands, and this isn't sci-fi. (02:34):
undefined
Josh: Patient number one is this guy named Nolan, who's already trash-talking friends (02:38):
undefined
Josh: in the popular video game called Civilization VI, just by thinking about it. (02:41):
undefined
Josh: And just recently, the Neuralink team gave this super cool demo of their patients (02:44):
undefined
Josh: actually playing Call of Duty together using just their thoughts, (02:48):
undefined
Josh: walking around the 3D world, pointing their gun, then actually shooting enemies. (02:51):
undefined
Josh: And as a fellow Call of Duty player, seeing someone telepathically walking around (02:54):
undefined
Josh: Nuketown, it's pretty freaking cool. (02:58):
undefined
Josh: They also continue the demo with an example of how a person can telepathically (03:00):
undefined
Josh: connect to an optimist humanoid robot. (03:03):
undefined
Josh: Picture you're disabled, but want to interact with the physical world? (03:05):
undefined
Josh: Well, with the chip, you can telepathically embody a humanoid robot and walk (03:08):
undefined
Josh: and talk and one day even feel the sensory inputs that the robot also feels. (03:12):
undefined
Josh: They gave an early demo of this playing rock, paper, scissors and the optimist (03:17):
undefined
Josh: hand flipping off the audience, which, you know, nice touch. (03:20):
undefined
Josh: The second reason Neuralink is important is for civilizational survival. (03:23):
undefined
Josh: Elon's gamble is that when AI superintelligence levels up to god mode, (03:27):
undefined
Josh: we'll need a bandwidth upgrade to stay co-pilots and not turn into passengers. (03:31):
undefined
Josh: If artificial general intelligence keeps compounding, human decision-making (03:36):
undefined
Josh: bandwidth becomes the bottleneck that turns us from stewards of the future into mere spectators. (03:39):
undefined
Josh: Elon frames the link as a defensive and democratizing upgrade, (03:44):
undefined
Josh: a direct cortical interface that scales our input-output rate. (03:47):
undefined
Josh: So, to explain that simply, think of your body as a computer for a second. (03:50):
undefined
Josh: Over the course of the day, how many operations per second, on average, can you do? (03:54):
undefined
Josh: It's pretty low. You can say a couple of words, type a few things into your (03:58):
undefined
Josh: phone, walk a step or two, and that's really it. we're pretty low bandwidth. (04:01):
undefined
Josh: Like, think about it. You're using your two thumbs on a slab of glass that you (04:06):
undefined
Josh: call a smartphone to communicate incredibly complex thoughts with this device. (04:09):
undefined
Josh: There's a ton of compression of your big ideas reduced down to just a few keystrokes. (04:13):
undefined
Josh: And the same is true about communication. (04:16):
undefined
Josh: As I'm talking to you, I'm having this whole rich idea of how I want to describe this technology. (04:18):
undefined
Josh: That idea then has to be compressed into words, then spoken to you, the listener. (04:22):
undefined
Josh: I make my vocal cords vibrate. Those vibrations resonate against your eardrums, (04:26):
undefined
Josh: where you interpret the words I'm saying and build your own model of what you (04:30):
undefined
Josh: believe my message means. (04:33):
undefined
Josh: Like right now, I'm imagining this world in which I'm telepathically connecting (04:35):
undefined
Josh: to an optimist robot on Mars and walking around the planet as if it was my real body. (04:37):
undefined
Josh: The visual I have is almost certainly drastically different than yours, (04:41):
undefined
Josh: but if we had a neural link, well, you could just see it exactly how I see it. (04:45):
undefined
Josh: So, to tie back to the civilizational survival thing, we're looking to go from (04:49):
undefined
Josh: sluggish thumbs per second to megabits and then hopefully gigabits per second (04:52):
undefined
Josh: of neural data, letting us collaborate with superintelligent systems instead (04:56):
undefined
Josh: of being outmaneuvered by them. (04:59):
undefined
Josh: In this view, the implant is less a medical device and more a civil engineering (05:00):
undefined
Josh: project for the species, us. (05:04):
undefined
Josh: It's a neural on-ramp that allows every individual brain to tap into the real-time (05:07):
undefined
Josh: computational power that a frontier model AI enjoys. (05:11):
undefined
Josh: By hardwiring humans into the loop, the argument is we keep moral judgment, (05:14):
undefined
Josh: creativity, and lived experience inside the feedback cycle that guides the machines, (05:19):
undefined
Josh: preventing a narrow elite or the AI themselves from monopolizing the layers (05:23):
undefined
Josh: of economics, politics, or even kinetic forces like our military. (05:28):
undefined
Josh: So in short, boost the bandwidth, merge the perspectives, and humanity maintains (05:31):
undefined
Josh: a seat at the negotiation table instead of being placed on top of it. (05:36):
undefined
Josh: And yeah, this is effectively the point at which we merge ourselves with the (05:40):
undefined
Josh: singularity, defined as a hypothetical point in time at which technology growth (05:43):
undefined
Josh: becomes completely alien to humans, uncontrollable, irreversible. (05:47):
undefined
Josh: Resulting in unforeseen consequences for the human civilization. (05:51):
undefined
Josh: Well, good news is Neuralink is trying to avoid just that. And in doing so, (05:55):
undefined
Josh: opens up the door to an ideal called transhumanism, which is a philosophical (05:59):
undefined
Josh: intellectual movement that kind of advocates for using technology to enhance (06:02):
undefined
Josh: human capabilities and improve the human condition as a whole. (06:05):
undefined
Josh: Remember earlier when I said neural link could cure blindness? (06:08):
undefined
Josh: It can do a lot more than that. Think of your eyeballs as a camera and then (06:11):
undefined
Josh: think of all the amazing things that cameras are capable of doing today. It gets pretty wild. (06:14):
undefined
Josh: Blindsight could deliver high resolution vision that's equal to or better than (06:18):
undefined
Josh: perfect 2020 eyesight but with even more fun features on top. (06:22):
undefined
Josh: Imagine built-in telephoto capability to zoom in and see things further out, (06:26):
undefined
Josh: or a macro ability, just like your iPhone, to see microscopic objects without (06:30):
undefined
Josh: any external tools. But it gets even cooler. (06:35):
undefined
Josh: It can let you perceive beyond normal human limits, like infrared for detecting (06:38):
undefined
Josh: heat in the dark, spotting warm objects in the night, or ultraviolet for hidden (06:42):
undefined
Josh: patterns, even radar to see through fog and walls. (06:46):
undefined
Josh: And imagine augmented overlays too, with real-time info like navigation directions (06:49):
undefined
Josh: projected right into your view. No need for glasses, just your eyeballs. (06:53):
undefined
Josh: And for those born blind, your brain would just adapt these new signals creating (06:57):
undefined
Josh: vision from scratch now that's for the advanced versions in the future but for (07:00):
undefined
Josh: the initial versions well it still works. (07:04):
undefined
Josh: It won't be like your natural crystal clear eyesight at first. (07:06):
undefined
Josh: It'll be basic and low resolution, kind of like pixelated graphics from an old (07:09):
undefined
Josh: video game on Atari or early Nintendo. (07:12):
undefined
Josh: You'll perceive the world in blocky images, maybe grayscale or with simple colors, (07:14):
undefined
Josh: spotting large objects, basic outlines, movement. (07:18):
undefined
Josh: Think navigating a room, dodging obstacles, or noticing a door or a person nearby, (07:21):
undefined
Josh: but not being able to make out the specific details just yet. (07:25):
undefined
Josh: But it gets really good, really fast, and they've laid out a pretty cool timeline (07:28):
undefined
Josh: for when we can expect these things to work. (07:31):
undefined
Josh: So as of this month, which is July 2025, Neuralink has nine human implants, (07:34):
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Josh: patient one through patient nine, with patient eight and nine done in one day, which is a first. (07:38):
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Josh: Bandwidth is about nine and a half bits per second, with the team aiming for (07:43):
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Josh: 40 by end of year, so about a 5x, at which they will plan to have the chip implanted (07:46):
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Josh: in 30 patients, as well as roll out their blindsight and the robot arm controller (07:50):
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Josh: project they call Convoy. (07:54):
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Josh: From 2027 to 2029, they plan to increase the throughput of the chip to 25,000 (07:55):
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Josh: channels, which basically means a full HD neural feed to the chip. (08:00):
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Josh: Also during this window, they want to release a pair link with spinal cord stim (08:05):
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Josh: to reanimate your limbs. (08:08):
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Josh: You can think of it like a digital bridge on steroids in the case that you've (08:10):
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Josh: actually damaged your spinal cord. (08:13):
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Josh: Then by 2030, things start to get pretty weird. We get elective cognitive coprocessor (08:14):
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Josh: for memory search and language translation, (08:20):
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Josh: which means real-time translate and searching through your past memories, (08:23):
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Josh: whether you are excited to do that or not. (08:27):
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Josh: This comes with always-on-cloud AI creating a true symbiosis for the first time between human and AI. (08:30):
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Josh: You are always connected all the time. As well as creating a chip mesh network. (08:37):
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Josh: This is also when we can expect to see what Neuralink is calling the telepathy party mode. (08:42):
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Josh: So humanity now has a USB-C port poking through the blood-brain barrier. (08:46):
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Josh: Today, it's letting nine paralyzed pioneers swipe, click, and maybe soon see again. (08:50):
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Josh: Tomorrow, it can beam Grok10 straight into our visual stream. (08:55):
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Josh: So ask yourself, when the install wizard pops up and you have to click the terms (08:58):
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Josh: of service, with the risk-adjusted return on investment of civilizational survival, do you click accept? (09:03):
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Josh: Because whether we're ready or (09:10):
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Josh: not, the age of downloadable upgrades for wetware has officially booted. (09:11):
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Josh: Our next grand task isn't actually inventing the tech, it's just deciding, (09:15):
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Josh: together, what it means to stay human while we use it. Thank you so much for watching. (09:19):
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Music: Music (09:27):
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Josh: one of the most interesting frontiers that I've been personally obsessed with (00:06):
undefined
Josh: is brain computer interfaces, especially Neuralink, which is what I believe (00:09):
undefined
Josh: to be the last personal device that will ever need to make. (00:13):
undefined
Josh: As I went down this rabbit hole, I was fascinated at how awe-inspiring that (00:16):
undefined
Josh: technology is, but also its inevitability. (00:19):
undefined
Josh: This technology is here today and it's becoming sci-fi level great incredibly (00:21):
undefined
Josh: quickly. So what you're about to listen to is a short video essay on just that. (00:25):
undefined
Josh: It's most exciting to watch this visually, either through YouTube or you can (00:29):
undefined
Josh: even watch the video straight from your Spotify feed. (00:32):
undefined
Josh: Everything you need is at limitless.bankless.com or you can click the link in (00:34):
undefined
Josh: the top of this episode description. (00:37):
undefined
Josh: Thank you as always for the support and sharing these episodes with any friends (00:39):
undefined
Josh: who might be interested in this cool frontier crazy tech stuff. (00:42):
undefined
Josh: So with that said, let's get right into this mini episode on Neuralink. (00:45):
undefined
Josh: Would you allow a developer you've never met to install software in your brain (00:48):
undefined
Josh: that gives total access to all of your thoughts, your memories, (00:52):
undefined
Josh: and everything that makes you, you, the same way you install an update on your iPhone? (00:55):
undefined
Josh: The knee-jerk reaction is probably no. That's creepy. It's weird enough that (01:00):
undefined
Josh: my phone knows everything about me. (01:04):
undefined
Josh: The last thing I want is a company to see my literal thoughts and fears. (01:05):
undefined
Josh: But what if I made you a few promises? (01:09):
undefined
Josh: Like this chip can remember your dreams and memories and then play them back (01:12):
undefined
Josh: as if you were reliving them for the first time, fully viscerally. (01:15):
undefined
Josh: It'll hijack your senses and you'll feel everything you felt as if you were (01:18):
undefined
Josh: right back there for the very first time. (01:22):
undefined
Josh: It can give you super sight that allows you to see night vision or infrared rays. (01:24):
undefined
Josh: It can teach you the language overnight before you get on that plane to Japan. (01:28):
undefined
Josh: It could cure you of injuries, curing paralysis and blindness. (01:32):
undefined
Josh: It can remove your depression, fix hearing loss, remove that annoying tinnitus you have. (01:35):
undefined
Josh: It can stop your loved ones from suffering from Alzheimer's, (01:39):
undefined
Josh: dementia, and strokes. Oh, and you'll be able to communicate with others totally telepathically. (01:42):
undefined
Josh: Suddenly, this sounds a little more compelling, doesn't it? (01:47):
undefined
Josh: If you're thinking this is just like an episode of Black Mirror, (01:50):
undefined
Josh: you're right, but this technology is real, and just this week, (01:52):
undefined
Josh: two more patients answered yes to that question. (01:56):
undefined
Josh: They received the chip that will eventually do all these amazing things, (01:59):
undefined
Josh: but for now, in these patients, it's doing just one job, and that's fixing people's paralysis. (02:02):
undefined
Josh: The company is called Neuralink, and their first product is called Telepathy, (02:07):
undefined
Josh: and just last week, they embedded the Telepathy chip into patients number eight and number nine. (02:11):
undefined
Josh: These are some of the first people in the world to benefit from this technology, (02:15):
undefined
Josh: and the results are pretty remarkable. (02:18):
undefined
Josh: We'll get into that, but first let's peel back the skull figuratively and see (02:21):
undefined
Josh: exactly how this thing works and why it matters. (02:24):
undefined
Josh: So there's two reasons Neuralink is important, and they actually couldn't be more different. (02:27):
undefined
Josh: The first is human liberation. If your spinal cord quits on you or you become (02:31):
undefined
Josh: paralyzed, telepathy can give you digital hands, and this isn't sci-fi. (02:34):
undefined
Josh: Patient number one is this guy named Nolan, who's already trash-talking friends (02:38):
undefined
Josh: in the popular video game called Civilization VI, just by thinking about it. (02:41):
undefined
Josh: And just recently, the Neuralink team gave this super cool demo of their patients (02:44):
undefined
Josh: actually playing Call of Duty together using just their thoughts, (02:48):
undefined
Josh: walking around the 3D world, pointing their gun, then actually shooting enemies. (02:51):
undefined
Josh: And as a fellow Call of Duty player, seeing someone telepathically walking around (02:54):
undefined
Josh: Nuketown, it's pretty freaking cool. (02:58):
undefined
Josh: They also continue the demo with an example of how a person can telepathically (03:00):
undefined
Josh: connect to an optimist humanoid robot. (03:03):
undefined
Josh: Picture you're disabled, but want to interact with the physical world? (03:05):
undefined
Josh: Well, with the chip, you can telepathically embody a humanoid robot and walk (03:08):
undefined
Josh: and talk and one day even feel the sensory inputs that the robot also feels. (03:12):
undefined
Josh: They gave an early demo of this playing rock, paper, scissors and the optimist (03:17):
undefined
Josh: hand flipping off the audience, which, you know, nice touch. (03:20):
undefined
Josh: The second reason Neuralink is important is for civilizational survival. (03:23):
undefined
Josh: Elon's gamble is that when AI superintelligence levels up to god mode, (03:27):
undefined
Josh: we'll need a bandwidth upgrade to stay co-pilots and not turn into passengers. (03:31):
undefined
Josh: If artificial general intelligence keeps compounding, human decision-making (03:36):
undefined
Josh: bandwidth becomes the bottleneck that turns us from stewards of the future into mere spectators. (03:39):
undefined
Josh: Elon frames the link as a defensive and democratizing upgrade, (03:44):
undefined
Josh: a direct cortical interface that scales our input-output rate. (03:47):
undefined
Josh: So, to explain that simply, think of your body as a computer for a second. (03:50):
undefined
Josh: Over the course of the day, how many operations per second, on average, can you do? (03:54):
undefined
Josh: It's pretty low. You can say a couple of words, type a few things into your (03:58):
undefined
Josh: phone, walk a step or two, and that's really it. we're pretty low bandwidth. (04:01):
undefined
Josh: Like, think about it. You're using your two thumbs on a slab of glass that you (04:06):
undefined
Josh: call a smartphone to communicate incredibly complex thoughts with this device. (04:09):
undefined
Josh: There's a ton of compression of your big ideas reduced down to just a few keystrokes. (04:13):
undefined
Josh: And the same is true about communication. (04:16):
undefined
Josh: As I'm talking to you, I'm having this whole rich idea of how I want to describe this technology. (04:18):
undefined
Josh: That idea then has to be compressed into words, then spoken to you, the listener. (04:22):
undefined
Josh: I make my vocal cords vibrate. Those vibrations resonate against your eardrums, (04:26):
undefined
Josh: where you interpret the words I'm saying and build your own model of what you (04:30):
undefined
Josh: believe my message means. (04:33):
undefined
Josh: Like right now, I'm imagining this world in which I'm telepathically connecting (04:35):
undefined
Josh: to an optimist robot on Mars and walking around the planet as if it was my real body. (04:37):
undefined
Josh: The visual I have is almost certainly drastically different than yours, (04:41):
undefined
Josh: but if we had a neural link, well, you could just see it exactly how I see it. (04:45):
undefined
Josh: So, to tie back to the civilizational survival thing, we're looking to go from (04:49):
undefined
Josh: sluggish thumbs per second to megabits and then hopefully gigabits per second (04:52):
undefined
Josh: of neural data, letting us collaborate with superintelligent systems instead (04:56):
undefined
Josh: of being outmaneuvered by them. (04:59):
undefined
Josh: In this view, the implant is less a medical device and more a civil engineering (05:00):
undefined
Josh: project for the species, us. (05:04):
undefined
Josh: It's a neural on-ramp that allows every individual brain to tap into the real-time (05:07):
undefined
Josh: computational power that a frontier model AI enjoys. (05:11):
undefined
Josh: By hardwiring humans into the loop, the argument is we keep moral judgment, (05:14):
undefined
Josh: creativity, and lived experience inside the feedback cycle that guides the machines, (05:19):
undefined
Josh: preventing a narrow elite or the AI themselves from monopolizing the layers (05:23):
undefined
Josh: of economics, politics, or even kinetic forces like our military. (05:28):
undefined
Josh: So in short, boost the bandwidth, merge the perspectives, and humanity maintains (05:31):
undefined
Josh: a seat at the negotiation table instead of being placed on top of it. (05:36):
undefined
Josh: And yeah, this is effectively the point at which we merge ourselves with the (05:40):
undefined
Josh: singularity, defined as a hypothetical point in time at which technology growth (05:43):
undefined
Josh: becomes completely alien to humans, uncontrollable, irreversible. (05:47):
undefined
Josh: Resulting in unforeseen consequences for the human civilization. (05:51):
undefined
Josh: Well, good news is Neuralink is trying to avoid just that. And in doing so, (05:55):
undefined
Josh: opens up the door to an ideal called transhumanism, which is a philosophical (05:59):
undefined
Josh: intellectual movement that kind of advocates for using technology to enhance (06:02):
undefined
Josh: human capabilities and improve the human condition as a whole. (06:05):
undefined
Josh: Remember earlier when I said neural link could cure blindness? (06:08):
undefined
Josh: It can do a lot more than that. Think of your eyeballs as a camera and then (06:11):
undefined
Josh: think of all the amazing things that cameras are capable of doing today. It gets pretty wild. (06:14):
undefined
Josh: Blindsight could deliver high resolution vision that's equal to or better than (06:18):
undefined
Josh: perfect 2020 eyesight but with even more fun features on top. (06:22):
undefined
Josh: Imagine built-in telephoto capability to zoom in and see things further out, (06:26):
undefined
Josh: or a macro ability, just like your iPhone, to see microscopic objects without (06:30):
undefined
Josh: any external tools. But it gets even cooler. (06:35):
undefined
Josh: It can let you perceive beyond normal human limits, like infrared for detecting (06:38):
undefined
Josh: heat in the dark, spotting warm objects in the night, or ultraviolet for hidden (06:42):
undefined
Josh: patterns, even radar to see through fog and walls. (06:46):
undefined
Josh: And imagine augmented overlays too, with real-time info like navigation directions (06:49):
undefined
Josh: projected right into your view. No need for glasses, just your eyeballs. (06:53):
undefined
Josh: And for those born blind, your brain would just adapt these new signals creating (06:57):
undefined
Josh: vision from scratch now that's for the advanced versions in the future but for (07:00):
undefined
Josh: the initial versions well it still works. (07:04):
undefined
Josh: It won't be like your natural crystal clear eyesight at first. (07:06):
undefined
Josh: It'll be basic and low resolution, kind of like pixelated graphics from an old (07:09):
undefined
Josh: video game on Atari or early Nintendo. (07:12):
undefined
Josh: You'll perceive the world in blocky images, maybe grayscale or with simple colors, (07:14):
undefined
Josh: spotting large objects, basic outlines, movement. (07:18):
undefined
Josh: Think navigating a room, dodging obstacles, or noticing a door or a person nearby, (07:21):
undefined
Josh: but not being able to make out the specific details just yet. (07:25):
undefined
Josh: But it gets really good, really fast, and they've laid out a pretty cool timeline (07:28):
undefined
Josh: for when we can expect these things to work. (07:31):
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Josh: So as of this month, which is July 2025, Neuralink has nine human implants, (07:34):
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Josh: patient one through patient nine, with patient eight and nine done in one day, which is a first. (07:38):
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Josh: Bandwidth is about nine and a half bits per second, with the team aiming for (07:43):
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Josh: 40 by end of year, so about a 5x, at which they will plan to have the chip implanted (07:46):
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Josh: in 30 patients, as well as roll out their blindsight and the robot arm controller (07:50):
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Josh: project they call Convoy. (07:54):
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Josh: From 2027 to 2029, they plan to increase the throughput of the chip to 25,000 (07:55):
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Josh: channels, which basically means a full HD neural feed to the chip. (08:00):
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Josh: Also during this window, they want to release a pair link with spinal cord stim (08:05):
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Josh: to reanimate your limbs. (08:08):
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Josh: You can think of it like a digital bridge on steroids in the case that you've (08:10):
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Josh: actually damaged your spinal cord. (08:13):
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Josh: Then by 2030, things start to get pretty weird. We get elective cognitive coprocessor (08:14):
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Josh: for memory search and language translation, (08:20):
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Josh: which means real-time translate and searching through your past memories, (08:23):
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Josh: whether you are excited to do that or not. (08:27):
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Josh: This comes with always-on-cloud AI creating a true symbiosis for the first time between human and AI. (08:30):
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Josh: You are always connected all the time. As well as creating a chip mesh network. (08:37):
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Josh: This is also when we can expect to see what Neuralink is calling the telepathy party mode. (08:42):
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Josh: So humanity now has a USB-C port poking through the blood-brain barrier. (08:46):
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Josh: Today, it's letting nine paralyzed pioneers swipe, click, and maybe soon see again. (08:50):
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Josh: Tomorrow, it can beam Grok10 straight into our visual stream. (08:55):
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Josh: So ask yourself, when the install wizard pops up and you have to click the terms (08:58):
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Josh: of service, with the risk-adjusted return on investment of civilizational survival, do you click accept? (09:03):
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Josh: Because whether we're ready or (09:10):
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Josh: not, the age of downloadable upgrades for wetware has officially booted. (09:11):
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Josh: Our next grand task isn't actually inventing the tech, it's just deciding, (09:15):
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Josh: together, what it means to stay human while we use it. Thank you so much for watching. (09:19):
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