Max Hodak

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"I don't have a PhD. I spent five years running a company for my CEO at Neuralink. One of the most valuable things for me at Neuralink was I was working with someone who has empirically excellent judgment. Having been in those situations where I was trying to make these bets with stakes attached, looking forward in time, not getting feedback until later — that advice was incredibly useful for fitting those filters."

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"The hurdle for a while was, I think, Sonnet's performance — if you could beat that, then you could get an interview. I think there's a bunch of ways to construct AI-resistant homeworks."

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"SpaceX and Tesla internally have a pretty giant piece of software called Warp Speed that runs a lot of their manufacturing and R&D processes. When one company grows up around a harness fit to it, it can be very powerful."

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"There's the right to try act passed a little while ago we've had this pathway called single patient IND for a lot longer than that um the FDA like if if your doctor calls the FDA and says hey I want to give this my patient an approved drug they give over 99% of those over"

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"There actually is one approved getting paid implantable BCI today which is in China and the CFDA is thinking for itself. And they really do have a system that I think is going to give us a run for our money if we're not if we're not careful."

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"People really don't get what's coming in what's possible with brain-computer interfaces. And those are really parallel but very distinct stories."

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"That era from 2012 to like 2016, I strongly identified with Ben Horus's essay, The Struggle."

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"My parents tell me a story about how I sat on the floor of a Barnes & Noble and cried until they bought me a Learn Visual Basic book."

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"So we finished a big clinical trial last year which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in the fall."

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"I was definitely inspired by science fiction. The Matrix had a big impact on me."

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"There was a company a decade ago called Second Sight that had an electrical stimulator that was implanted in the eye. It was a 4 and 1 half hour surgery with a titanium box on the side of the eye."

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"This was also the time when AWS was just emerging and cloud computing was becoming a thing."

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"Have you seen James Cameron's Avatar movies? Like you know the ponytails that the aliens have. That's how I think about it. Basically, it's like it's a big new cranial nerve with a connector at the end."

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"There are ERP systems out there, but there's no company that loves their ERP system. I don't know there's anyone who's really like, 'I want to spend more time in NetSuite.'"