No, you seem to misunderstand. Animal treatment is awful, but one of the big reasons to do these treatments ethically and with care is to ensure the quality of research while reducing the risk of cruel side effects.
Musk is in the 'move fast and break things' camp, which is the last thing I would ever want when considering an implant that's going into my brain. If you want to trust Musk with your brain and assume he won't treat quality control the same way he's treated everything else then that's your prerogative, not mine. As I've mentioned and continue to mention, Musk is not the single one pushing forward on these sort of things. He is not some hero doing this out of the goodness of his heart.
I would much rather use an implant that has had the absolute most amount of research and development work done on it as possible, which means quick iterations and hard deadlines to move forward.
You can make the claim that he isn't doing it for humanitarian reasons, even though there's no foundation to make that claim unless you're Elon himself. However with the anticipated price point (a few thousand dollars) for a Neuralink surgery and implant compared to the cost of R&D over the next decade or more makes it pretty clear that Elon isn't doing this to make his next fortune. He's stated his reasons for Neuralink a million times over and if you don't choose to believe him then all I can do is disregard your comment alongside all the others that claim to psychically know for certain his intentions when you've literally never met, worked with, or spoken to the guy before.
I want to know if I'm getting an implant that I'm not part of that testing group and that the maximum amount of diligence has been done to reduce the risk of side effects in that implant. Careless animal testing and rapid iteration make me less confident about that.
If Musk is willing to cut corners and do sloppy research during animal testing, he is not suddenly going to become enormously careful as soon as humans are involved. He's actively proving that he doesn't have the patience to wait until he's sure about the process before implanting these things in a living brain.
Quick iterations and hard deadlines very often lead to things breaking in production. Once something is implanted in my brain, I do not want quick iterations on it. I don't want it to have been recently changed. And given that Musk appears to be seriously pushing for human testing within the next 6 months, I don't see any reason to believe he's going to want to conduct human testing with significantly more care or that he won't be applying a "move fast and break things" philosophy to that testing as well.
When someone is putting a device in my body, I want to know that the scientists made sure that device would be safe even if doing so meant missing some deadlines.
Musk is in the 'move fast and break things' camp, which is the last thing I would ever want when considering an implant that's going into my brain. If you want to trust Musk with your brain and assume he won't treat quality control the same way he's treated everything else then that's your prerogative, not mine. As I've mentioned and continue to mention, Musk is not the single one pushing forward on these sort of things. He is not some hero doing this out of the goodness of his heart.