brain-computer interfaces

also referred to as: bci · bcis

3 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2026 by Max Hodak · across every show →

Everything said about brain-computer interfaces, oldest first

Aug 20, 2026 neutral
Insight
Hodak: Treating BCI as one bet is like having one drug bet
“I think BCI is a category, kind of like how pharma is a category. I think sometimes you, I'll talk to VCs and like, oh, we have a BCI bet. Like, do you have a drug bet? You made one bet on a drugs? Like, that's that, that's how you think about the category.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 12:26 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: BCIs and perfusion medicine can significantly improve healthspan
“Through a mix of the BCIs that allow you to kind of change the system, the thing that it's interacting with and our perfusion medicine program we think that there's ways to significantly improve not just lifespan, but healthspan and kind of create a better qua…”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 27:05 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hodak: Brain-computer interfaces will probably not make thinking faster
“I think that talking or writing is thinking. I think this idea that there's the stuff that's just this kind of preformed in your brain, that if you could access it through BCI, it would be faster is probably not. Not the case.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 29:19 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
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