Not really. 1500 is fine for a chance at helping people with paralysis, would have to be magnitudes higher for me to care.

The potential good outweighs the cost significantly

This device is not going to deliver that (help with paralysis) for a decade or more. At best it's going to allow people to move a cursor on a screen.

And for someone fully paralyzed that'd be a massive quality of life improvement

I'm fine waiting an extra-decade and killing 3k animals for that. Hell, let's make it 10k animals.

This is huge. Even just moving the cursor on a screen... you're fixing carpal tunnel syndrome for every white collar employee working at a computer all day.

Me too, but this is not what Musk has promised. He is promising far more in far less time. His typical MO.

And thinking that an average office worker would get an invasive brain implant to prevent carpal tunnel is nuts. Carpal tunnel is a thousand times better to have than an invasive brain surgury.

As a big proponent of founders having skin in the game, I hope Musk's family members and children are some of the first in line for human trials.

If Musk ever becomes quadriplegic I can almost guarantee he will sign himself up.

Sorry, but no one is going to get an incredibly invasive and risky neural implant to solve carpal tunnel syndrome.

You didn't understand my point. I'm saying if this bothers you, you should stop eating meat. If it doesn't bother you, well, then no cognitive dissonance.