The ReNeural Project

Covering the ongoing biomedical revolution emancipating humanity from disease and disability, with emphasis on brain and spinal cord disorders. #Transhumanism

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

#Disability Studies claims to speak for all #disabled people—but it’s a privileged minority’s luxury belief

Helen Pluckrose (@HPluckrose) and I discuss the roots of Disability Studies, how it harms the disabled & alternative approaches

Is #transhumanism the way forward?

[nature @Nature]

The artificial lung system kept the man alive without his lungs for 48 hours before he could receive a double lung transplant

https://t.co/fOj7Hw11Yv

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Improving complex cardiology care with a large language model: a randomized trial (not real world) shows support with AI led to substantial improvement in accuracy and less time
https://t.co/lVkWwIQ1qg

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We worked with @Ginkgo to connect GPT-5 to an autonomous lab, so it could propose experiments, run them at scale, learn from the results, and decide what to try next. That closed loop brought protein production cost down by 40%.

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

@jasoncrawford https://t.co/noYjlSjJAH

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

Fair counter. If we're looking at it from a purely psychological perspective, maintaining an internal locus of control is key.

I was thinking about my own situations when I wrote that response. I was born with Cerebral Palsy, which I obviously didn't choose. I started The ReNeural Project to advocate for the acceleration of biotech, and other future medical technologies for the purpose of eventually eliminating all disability, which I? derive a lot of meaning from.

[nature @Nature]

A new generation of engineered immune cell destroys cancer cells in mice as effectively as conventional CAR-T-cell therapies without suppressing the immune system

https://t.co/pfm3mY5S09

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

The phrase "reimagine disability " drives me insane.

The core idea seems to be "If everyone just thought about #disability the way that I, the enlightened Critical Disability Theorist, do, that would change everything!"

It's a strange sort of collective solipsism; Narcissism masquerading as empathy and philosophical insight.

Instead of reimagining disability, we should re-engineer ability through #biotech and #neurotech

[IEEE Brain @IEEEBrain]

What if intending to move could help restore #mobility? @psychtoday says new data shows noninvasive #brain signals can reveal attempted movement in those with #paralysis, an early but powerful step toward thought-driven support and renewed independence: https://t.co/xKIMqOH2QL

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

There is no permanently polite way to directly acknowledge that someone has a significant cognitive impairment. We must separate the concepts of capability, intellectual or otherwise, with moral worth, which is rooted in common humanity. Instead of tiptoeing around the issue, we should accelerate the development of medical interventions to mitigate and reverse intellectual disability. Elimination of disability is a humanitarian duty, because disabled people deserve freedom and autonomy at least as much as they non-disabled.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Using it as an insult, or as part of the new right-wing campaign to overturn norms of civility, respect, and ordinary decency, is contemptible. But trying to ban the word, or to surrender to the mindset of taboo and treat it with awe and dread, are ill-advised. Context and intent are crucial: the word Jew can be used as a demeaning epithet, but that doesn't mean we should ban it.

[World Governments Summit @WorldGovSummit]

Noland Arbaugh, First Recipient, Neuralink, during a Plenary Session titled "Are We Ready for Human 2.0?":

"People come first. We need to make sure that what we're doing is improving the lives of people with disabilities. We're helping them first, and then an enhancement can come."

@ModdedQuad

[Ian Copeland, PhD @IanCopeland5]

Cancer research and treatments is getting progressively better everyday.

Cancers that used to kill children are now completely treatable.

The future is brighter than it's every been!!!

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

@lifebiosciences @LongevityTech @FDA Have you guys discussed future brain damage reversal applications?

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

@peterboghossian My conversation with Helen Pluckrose on Disability Studies 
https://t.co/oXdPG5FMQh

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

@peterboghossian When you reject individualism and elevate group identity, this is where you end up

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

@jasoncrawford https://t.co/noYjlSjbL9

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

@jasoncrawford Disability Rights should pivot to advocating for accelerating biotech and neurotech alongside reasonable accommodations. Preserving disability as an identity is morally perverse

[Cell Press @CellPressNews]

Surgeons build artificial lung system to keep patient without lungs alive for 48 hours until transplant.

Ankit Bharat & colleagues
@MedCellPress

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

We’ve spent decades treating cancer once it appears.

A new Nature study shows a vaccine can train the immune system to recognize Lynch syndrome-associated cancer mutations before disease even begins.

This could be a total a paradigm shift in cancer prevention.

[The ReNeural Project @ReNeural]

Teaching #disabled people to frame issues this way does no favors to their mental health

It's only use is to stoke highly-motivated but ill-informed activism