The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain
pminimax
41 points
6 comments
September 02, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
fxtentacle
"VCs in the US are too big now — only social media (prev) or Al (now) have the scale they want." I agree.
commieneko
Nothing terrifying about _that_ title ...
seydor
chemo/optogenetics have been used for decades to erase memories, change valence of memories, generate memories .... usually fear memories .. in mice.
gregglain
Cool, I see the health value of this. Now talk about the commercial value that has folks really excited.