Nolan Arbaugh
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265 appearances
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
Nolan Arbaugh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, it was within a couple weeks.
I like to thank my parents. The road back was long and hard, fraught with many difficulties. There were dark days. Um, uh, it was, it was a couple of weeks, uh, I think. And then there was just a turning point. I think they had switched how, um, they were measuring, um, the neuron spikes in my brain, like the bliss helped me out. Uh,
Yeah, okay. So when they did that, it was kind of like a light over the head, like light bulb moment, like, oh, this works. And this seems like we can run with this. And I saw the... uptick in performance immediately. I could feel it when they switched over. I was like, this is better. This is good.
Everything up till this point for the last few weeks, last whatever, three or four weeks, because it was before they even told me, everything before this sucked. Let's keep doing what we're doing now. And at that point, it was not like, oh, I know I'm still only at... say in web grid terms like four or five bps compared to my 7.5 before but i know that if we keep doing this then
I can get back there. And then they gave me the dwell cursor and the dwell cursor sucked at first. It's obviously not what I want, but it gave me a path forward to be able to continue using it and hopefully to continue to help out. And so I just ran with it, never looked back. Like I said, I'm just the kind of person I roll with the punches anyway. Yeah.
I have to continuously keep it moving, basically. So like I said, there's a threshold where it will initiate a click. So if I ever drop below that, it'll start and I have 0.3 seconds to move it before it clicks anything.
And if I don't want it to ever get there, I just keep it moving at a certain speed and just constantly doing circles on screen, moving it back and forth to keep it from clicking stuff. Um, I actually noticed, uh, a couple of weeks back that I was, when I was not using the implant, I was just moving my hand back and forth or in circles.
Like I was trying to keep the cursor from clicking and I was just doing it like while I was trying to go to sleep and I was like, okay, this is a problem.
Yeah, it happens in chess. I've lost a number of games because I'll accidentally click something.
Yeah.
It's a lot of me just using it day in and day out and saying, hey, can you guys do this for me? Give me this. I want to be able to do that. I need this. I think... A lot of it just doesn't occur to them maybe until someone is actually using the app, using the implant. It's just something that they just never would have thought of. Or it's very specific to even like me, maybe what I want.
It's something I'm a little worried about with the next people that come is maybe they will want things much different than how I've set it up or what the advice I've given the team. And they're going to look at some of the things they've added for me. I'm like, that's a dumb idea. Why would he ask for that?
And so I'm really looking forward to get the next people on because I guarantee that they're going to think of things that I've never thought of. They're going to think of improvements. I'm like, wow, that's a really good idea. Like, I wish I would have thought of that. And then they're also going to give me some pushback about like, yeah, what you are asking them to do here. That's a bad idea.
Let's do it this way. And I'm more than happy to have that happen, but it's just a lot of like, you know, different interactions with, different games or applications, the internet, just with the computer in general. There's tons of bugs that end up popping up left, right, center.
So it's just me trying to use it as much as possible and showing them what works and what doesn't work and what I would like to be better. And then they take that feedback and They usually create amazing things for me. They solve these problems in ways I would have never imagined. They're so good at everything they do.
And so I'm just really thankful that I'm able to give them feedback and they can make something of it. Because a lot of my feedback is... like really dumb. It's just like, I want this, please do something about it. And we'll come back super well thought out. And it's way better than anything I could have ever thought of or implemented myself. So they're just great. They're really, really cool.
No, no, I hope. Compete. I hope day one they wipe the floor with me. I hope they beat it and they crush it, double it if they can. just because on one hand, it's only going to push me to be better because I'm super competitive. I want other people to push me.
I think that is important for anyone trying to achieve greatness is they need other people around them who are going to push them to be better. I even made a joke about it on X once. Once the next people get chosen, cue buddy cop music. I'm just excited to have other people to do this with and to like share experiences with. I'm more than happy to interact with them as much as they want.
More than happy to give them advice. I don't know what kind of advice I could give them, but if they have questions, I'm more than happy.
That they should have fun with this because it is a lot of fun and that I hope they work really, really hard because it's not just for us. It's for everyone that comes after us. And come to me if they need anything and to go to Neuralink if they need anything because Man, Neuralink moves mountains. They do absolutely anything for me that they can. And it's an amazing support system to have.
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