Musk wants a chip in your skull. Altman paid to have his brain uploaded. Thiel got asked whether humans should survive, and paused.
Three men who already own your feed, your search box and your AI have a plan for the inside of your head, friend. It has a name, it’s not science fiction and nobody asked you.
🤯 WOW! Neuralink has put a chip in 21 human brains, and Elon Musk says more than 1,000 this year is “feasible.” Sam Altman paid $10,000 to join a wait list for a brain-preservation procedure its founder calls “100% fatal.” And when a New York Times host asked Peter Thiel if he’d prefer the human race to survive, Thiel paused.
Why it matters: The people building the next version of humanity are the same people who own this version’s plumbing. Stick around for the one question I’d ask all three.
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Let’s talk about what’s inside your head, and who wants in.
Elon Musk wants a chip in your brain. Neuralink has implanted 21 people, and Musk says 1,000 more this year is doable. The device lets a paralyzed patient move a cursor by thinking. The end goal, Musk’s words: “symbiosis with artificial intelligence.”
Sam Altman, the ChatGPT guy, put down $10,000 for a spot on the wait list at Nectome, a startup that preserves your brain so it can be uploaded someday. The procedure, per the founder, is “100% fatal.” Altman’s take: “I assume my brain will be uploaded to the cloud.”
Peter Thiel, who bankrolled Facebook and Palantir, has spent decades funding the war on death itself. Last summer, a New York Times podcast host asked him, “You would prefer the human race to endure, right?” Thiel went quiet. Long enough that the host said, “You’re hesitating.” Eventually: yes.
🧠 Mind over matter (and yours is the matter)
There’s a name for this. Transhumanism. A real philosophy, not a movie plot, and it says the human body is version 1.0. Chips, uploads, engineered biology, then something post-human. Death is a bug. You’re the beta test.
I’m not telling you the science is fake. Neuralink gave a quadriplegic man his computer back. His name is Noland Arbaugh, he plays chess with his thoughts and I’ve interviewed him twice. Watch our first talk here. That’s a miracle. I’ve taken calls from listeners with ALS and spinal injuries. I want it for every one of them. If a chip hands one of them a keyboard, I’m all in.
That’s not the part that worries me.
Here’s what keeps me up at night. The men making the biggest bets on humanity 2.0 already own humanity 1.0’s plumbing. Your feed. The AI your kid uses to do homework. The cars. The data centers.
We handed them our attention and got feeds built to keep us scrolling. We handed them our data and got ads that follow us into the bathroom. Now their pitch is: Hand over the last private room you have. The one behind your eyes.
💭 Thought for food
Nobody’s asking you to sign anything today. But the conversation is happening without you, in rooms you’ll never see, and the people in them have already decided how it ends.
So here’s my ask. Talk about it tonight, with your spouse and your kids, with the friend who thinks this is sci-fi. Ask the one question I’d put to all three tech titans: If your product works, who decides which humans get the upgrade?
Me? My brain stays put. It’s the only device I own that hasn’t pushed an update I didn’t ask for. Musk can keep his chip. I have one. It’s called a memory, and the storage is full.
🎯 Send this to someone who says “it’s just a chip” or “it’s just a chatbot,” and to anyone who’s ever asked where all this is going.
📱 Text-worthy: Neuralink: 21 brains chipped, Musk wants 1,000+ this year. Altman paid $10K to wait for a brain upload that’s “100% fatal.” Thiel got asked if humans should survive and paused. It’s called transhumanism. Kim’s take is worth the 2 minutes.