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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q It's amazing what you're able to do. So, Let me just ask you this question. It's a simple question, but I'm curious to hear your answer. I mean, what does it feel like to not be able to move your hand, but to see that movement expressed on a screen when you think about it?
A You know, what's interesting is for seven years, seven and a half years, I was trying to move my hand and my body to create new neural pathways, um, to hopefully regain some movement. I never knew if it was working because there's no feedback. Um, there's no like feedback loop. I try to move my hand. I try to move my feet. I try to Move my legs, my body in any way, but I don't know if it's working. If what I'm trying to do is actually being propagated in my brain, really. I don't know if trying to move my hand is, um, you know, the signals are actually firing in my brain. When I was able to see my neurons firing for the first time, it really made me kind of emotional thinking that You know, when I move my index finger, there are still, like, neuron spikes, neurons firing in my brain. It's really just my spinal cord, and I think that should give a lot of people hope, honestly, because, like, everything's still working. You just gotta keep trying, keep trying, and keep forcing your body with brute force to relearn how to move.
AI assessment note: “When I was able to see my neurons firing for the first time, it really made me kind of emotional”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q So you use the Neuralink app, and that allows you to control your cursor on the screen, so once you got past the point of saying, okay, I can do this, what has that enabled you to do that you couldn't do before?
A I mean so much. Um, it's little things that add up to really big things. Being able to, like I said earlier, fill out an application online, um, it's given me a lot of hope and, you know, purpose and future prospect like, um, Ideas and ability. Like, I might be able to get a job. I might be able to go to school. Um, I can, you know, we were just talking about doing, like, video editing if I want to do. I can just interact with a computer at a much, much higher level. Play video games. Just enjoy surfing the web without, um, having to go through the headache of, like, the Mac OS navigation and things. And, You know, it adds up to a lot, being able to send a text in a few seconds instead of a text taking five, 10, 15 minutes sometimes to craft because of how bad dictation is. I mean, it's, it's terrible. Um, there's so much that I'm able to accomplish with a computer now that I was never able to do before, um, or that would have taken way too long. If you think about, if it takes five minutes to send a text message to one person, imagine trying to keep Up a conversation with 10 people in a night, um, and sending, you know, 50 to a hundred texts to each person. It's just not possible with macOS dictation if everything takes that long. With the Neuralink, it's way better. I feel like I've reconnected with my friends, uh, with my family, with, you know, the world in general, being a…
AI assessment note: “Being able to, like I said earlier, fill out an application online”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q Make humans more aligned with AI because the AI might be bored with how slow we type, and if we can interact with computers more quickly, then we can potentially, uh, sort of make peace and align our interests with artificial intelligence better. Um, now that you have the device, uh, you know, basically implanted in you, not even basically implanted in you, what do you think about that idea?
A Sounds fun. Sounds really cool. Um, so I think that it's gonna happen. I think that, you know, protecting us from AI is an interesting way to put it. I think that it'll definitely increase human capability at some point. I'm not sure How much the brain is something that we don't understand. So in my mind, you know, we've worked with typing before. We've worked with typing where, you know, I write a letter with a pencil and the letter, you know, pops up like a keystroke on the screen. Um, I got to the point where I didn't need to like physically attempt to write the letter. I could think of sort of the key, sort of the hand stroke of the letter and it would pop up. And I think that you could Take that to its logical conclusion, which is, if you can do that with a letter, you can do it with a word. If you can do it with a word, you can do it with a sentence. You can do it with a sentence. Maybe you could do it with whole strings of sentences, of code, of, um, like complex ideas. I don't think we're anywhere near where this thing is capable, and, um, so I believe you could, like, people who are programmers, coders, could use this to Um, maximize efficiency in some way, and like you're saying, be type faster, um, be able to keep up with some, like, AI stuff. It, it's interesting because, like, the brain itself is a supercomputer, so, like, what is our brain supercomputer capable of…
AI assessment note: “I think that it'll definitely increase human capability at some point.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q How, how have you, uh, maintained and built this sense of optimism? Because I don't think, I don't think everybody would be the same way.
A Um, a lot of it has to do with my faith. I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for my life, and that keeps me going. It helps me realize that there's something bigger than me, that there's a bigger plan in the universe that is, you know, so Much more grand and so much more important than anything that's happening with me. I believe that my accident really did save me from a salvation standpoint. I believe it's probably one of the best things that ever happened to me in a weird way, because I think that if I would have died that day, or if, you know, I would have not been injured at all, who knows like where I would be. Um, I definitely don't think that if I died that day, I would have gone to heaven. I definitely don't think that if I was never injured that I would have ever made my way back to Christianity and God. Um, I believe that I tell people when I was pulled out of the water that day, I believe God pulled me from the fire. Um, I honestly, truly believe that. And then the support system I have is one of the only reasons that I've made it this far. The people around me, my family and my friends are, you know, the best in the world. I know everyone says that about their family. And they're friends, but I honestly believe that that's true for me, and then it's just kind of who I am. I'm not a very stressed person, stressful person. I just kind of roll with the punches…
AI assessment note: “a lot of it has to do with my faith. I believe that God has a plan”
Answered raw tape
D 4 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.55
Q Okay. And so how long did it take you to start being able to control computers using that type of brain signal?
A So for the first 10 days, they weren't allowed to charge my implant because of safety regulations. They had to make sure that it was safe in my brain first, that it kind of stabilized, that the temperature range was okay, and so they weren't allowed to charge at all because charging like raises the temperature, And this is a safety study first, so they needed to make sure that everything was good. So every day for the first 10 days, um, some Neuralink guys would come over, um, in the Vrbo that we were staying at first near the hospital, they'd come over, uh, just two of them, Bliss and Near, and they would wake it up, and we would work for an hour, tops, and they would say, okay, we used 11%, that's it for today. Um, And we would do different tasks. We would do what we call body mapping, which is an animation of a hand, um, like moving different fingers in different ways, moving, uh, across the screen like a full hand, um, like shrugging shoulders, just all sorts of different movements that they wanted me to replicate, to follow.
AI assessment note: “So for the first 10 days, they weren't allowed to charge my implant”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 3 4.45
Q Okay. And at this point, is it dawning on you that, oh, there's a real chance that I might get brain surgery to implant a digital device in there?
A Yeah, you know, I kept my expectations extremely level through this whole process. They told me constantly that if anything about my injury, about, you know, my medical history didn't line up with exactly what they were looking for, their criteria, then they would say, okay, thank you, but we're going to go in a different direction sort of thing. They were always telling me that Like every interview, like, okay, this is going to be a two hour interview. If at any point, um, what you say doesn't line up with what we want, then we'll say sorry. I was like, yeah, that's fine. So I kept my expectations extremely level. Everyone around me didn't. Um, my buddy Bain called every day. He's like, holy, you know, like, yeah, like you made it through another one. You got another interview. You got another interview.
AI assessment note: “I kept my expectations extremely level through this whole process.”
