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Elon Musk's "Neuralink" Did a Number on Monkey's Brains

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0:00 [Music] all right everybody welcome back to japanese korean news japanese and korean news that's what it stands for we don't say nothing about china fans right big fans anti-china i am not that so hire me continuously wow oh wow elon musk's neurolink has been accused of mutilating monkey's brains wait what the ████ that sounds like part of the proposition of starting it it's like right you got to mutilate some brain it was like 13 out of 20 something monkeys died or something right what do they want them to get it right on the first shot 15 fifteen fifteen yeah oh what uh what what did they do well so nero lake is facing legal action from an animal

0:51 rights group after claims that the company carried out quote-unquote invasive and deadly brain experiments on test monkeys wouldn't you argue that all brain experiments are a little invasive and once you argue that test monkeys are already labeled test monkeys yeah that's all we need on it that's why i like when i go to my like human pile i go test humans but that's true you know you don't mix them up the empathetic for the monkeys and the animal rights let's really hear out the information and we'll come to a decision right how many bananas do so the sci-fi s company was set up by elon musk in the hopes of producing a brain implant that could treat or stop neurodegenerative diseases sounds pretty low key though that's pretty cool that's like high key that's pretty slick if he yeah down playing elizabeth oh you're right you're right yeah honestly it's it's all right yeah we'll see we'll see i'm that guy yeah doesn't sound bad wanna be a skeptic for the style of it

1:41 i don't know man some people base their whole personalities i disagree however the physicians committee for responsible medicine have spoken out in light of 600 pages of disturbing documents detailing the treatment of monkeys at the university of california davis on behalf of neurolink the documents revealed that monkeys had had their brains mutilated in shoddy experiments and were left to suffer and die that's ████ up that's really funny but have you guys seen a chimpanzee with all those ████ brain things it looks hilarious hilarious while they're screaming they're just ████ trying to ████ with the rubik's cube and ████ they just have that helmet thing yeah yeah that's pretty cute now the torture sucks obviously you know but obviously it's disclaimer torture sucks i'm sure the sound of is also not great yeah bro that must be ████ up i know they quit all that ████ i thought peter ████ goes into uc davis and opens up the

2:32 chimpanzees in the cages and lets them loose and ████ exactly although they did that did we cover a story about how uh dr fauci was like putting beagles oh dawg it was dogs he did experiments on dogs and he would like part of the experiment was using flies to land on their eyeballs we need to know that yeah that's i don't know why but ████ yeah yeah like what is that for that's my question but we flip the names and fauci is doing the monkey thing and then elon musk is doing the beagle thing has a different spin to it yeah so allegations i can see why he's using beagles he's a genius sorry no i'm no i'm being an idiot myself so the only thing you can do here allegations made against neurolink at uc davis include a lack of adequate veterinary care for dying monkeys the

3:22 use of an unapproved substance called biol bioglue that killed monkeys after destroying parts of their brains and a failure to look after the psychological well-being of the monkeys yeah you got to take care of your ears you like bio glue don't you you know i've never had it but i'm it's on my amazon cart what the ████ is bio i don't know what's bio it just seemed like a bio glue guy i just i just went with it i was like yeah i think they used to call it liquid band-aid yeah because i heard super glue was invented in the war to just patch up wounds you can you can you can seal up like cuts and stuff like that with super glue bio glue sounds like it's for like internal stuff doesn't it yeah because have you guys ruined your ████ fingers like like a dumb ass as a kid yeah as a kid i think if you didn't do it you didn't live life yeah yeah but i hadn't to this day it was like very nice that's a lot of this

4:13 so i remember going like super glue huh how super is this you're like oh ████ and you're trying next minute our mom's holding it under the water we're crying damn the only way it's gonna separate is if the skin rips and then you just do it yeah and then rips yeah did they find any success in these experiments through the sacrifice of these monkeys by the way um they better have because that's kind of what determines it right yeah yeah like if they just failed they're like inconclusive but all these monkeys are dead science needs multiple failures to get you know that's why they got like they study with bacteria then okay next step then with rats then with like mammals that are closer to humans and then monkeys and then finally during this entire near-link process and stuff one of the first things they had shown was like um the kneeling chip implanted in like pigs

5:05 and then being able to like understand and orient certain things and then the next they passed that phase yeah once it went past that they put it in monkeys and then there was this monkey who was sitting there who was playing pong i don't know if you guys ever saw that video and with his mind he's playing so it's not even like doing some sort of action it's about like thinking about what needs to happen in order for it to be able to contribute it's like if someone needed an arm that didn't have one now they can control it exactly so like there is there is real world use case possibility and obviously it is sci-fi-esque for a reason but like you can't like bart was saying you can't get to you know point b without like going from point a to crack a couple eggs bro uh you can't get luscious you can't get luscious hair and shampoo products unless you test it on monkeys first and make sure that their hair is nice and big all of your all of your hair products

5:55 are like you look for the sign that says like tortured on him with the animals first you're just like yeah it's like tested on chimpanzees first dude and then there's like there should be a commercial where the like they have a ████ nice little ████ curl they're under waterfall ████ l'oreal chimps yeah oh yeah that's still frothing at the mouth because we're worth it too oh remember didn't they send uh back in the day before like human test flights into like space did they send a dog yeah dogs and then monkeys and like to like not even come back like they just left them out there is it is it fair it was like a sacrifice i'm pretty sure the russians did that is it mean to say or is this fair to say uh rather than protest the uh usage of like animals in uh experiments for products maybe what if you what if you yourself

6:45 refuse to use any product created throughout history that was rooted in animal experiment then you wouldn't be able to use anything that's a bigger statement because like let's say the vegetarians and vegans that i meet that don't buy cars even with leather seats i'm like okay that's dope you know you really stand by you just know animal products yeah but if you're a vegan and you gotta ████ lexus and you got like leather see it's like they're you're kind of picking and choosing you know that's that's like you're using the benefits yeah you're using the benefits that were reaped from the procedure that you don't want to happen now that's like the people protesting about capitalism on their iphone while they wear nikes and then they go on their ████ laptop to ████ talk ████ while they use you know facebook and ████ or they're like they're talking about like giving land back to all the native americans but then they're still living on theirs it's like you're on land you can give

7:35 any time yeah i think look i'm not smart enough to understand here you are and that's all that understand yeah i'm not smart enough to understand go straight to the ad read please and this video is brought to you by herbal essence it's smart enough to understand it cuts to like and this is why it's brought to you by audible you you want to understand subscribe to audible now maybe you too can shampoo that you don't even need to understand it no go ahead no it's okay it's done no no uh i'm not smart to understand the nuance of like what needs to happen for this to work with these monkeys thanks man i appreciate that but it's also like i'm not a ████ scientist who am i gonna

8:25 tell like i'm not going to tell these ████ how to do their job but at the same time could we maybe try a little bit more ethical yeah like good we i don't know i don't think i'm a hotel bed like what well i don't i don't know what i don't know what's obviously someone has a dissertation written up about why like some ████ up things that are happening here so whatever that is maybe we could just like dial back them like maybe they're just taking these and ████ throw it it's like it's like farming where it's like yeah it is it's cruel but like when you see a ████ farm man just suck a cow for no reason just while he's doing it's like come on you need to do that oh my god you know when you see that what farms are you on bro they're punching cows you know yeah they're starving or they gotta like put they gotta like get the cow in the thing just for fun he'll just go like that ain't gonna make the burger any better you don't know hey you don't know let me see the study bro let's do the comparison study trying to tend to write i think if you get

9:15 called out for it then it's like you know do you can to like better the situation but i think yeah you've got to make your brain you got to be practical with this like when when people were giving elon musk ████ for uh making that kind of semi-blanket statement to the mars mission and being like some people are going to die yeah and people are like i can't believe you're sending people to their death they signed up for it yeah but it's like the most honorable death you could possibly have they're saving humanity sorry can you imagine it's like looking christopher columbus back then you know what i mean being like hey every ████ sailor needs to come back alive on this expedition would you do it if elon musk was like we need you anthony you're going to die but you're going to be if you look to me and he's like you're going to die i'm like nah it's cool i don't need i don't need to be that right but if it was even like okay like we need you you can die that's totally different it's like i get to choose to be here what if he lied he was like you can die oh he's totally gonna die

10:06 he's like he's a dancer he's gonna believe me not everybody's gonna make it they like salute you and they're like oh god damn oh he's just like look to your left look to your right somebody's not gonna make it i'm by myself and they're like oh this is one of those death missions and there's a golden retriever yeah it's just anthony and monkeys there's like ████ man he can't understand the commands that they're giving each it's like apollo 13 ████ and all of them have kendra's bombers on oh that's fire dude something actually happened positive for me in this video let's go that's how history shows you as the only kinja cause you're the only one that made it so the new planet until planet of the

10:56 apes and they're all just like kindreds that was the whole thing i i needed to go to another planet in order to really build kindles look all the monkeys come back doing this ████ they come back in general they're way better they're way better than they peel the bananas like that becomes the green oh the symbol becomes this oh damn ken just dude that's sick that's the real planet of the apes that's what it is it's this and then it goes that's the next level that's pretty cool and the subtitle says kenja's oh i'm pretty happy that's a pretty big move bro that's really cool damn that's awesome everyone was right to have chosen you i think so too you guys are going to populate moms [Music]

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