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Max Hodak

6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 20, 2026 by Max Hodak · across every show →

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Aug 20, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Hodak: The human brain has an evolved 10-bit-per-second cognitive bottleneck
“There's this, like, 10 bit per second kind of famous, like, cognitive bottleneck. There's this observation that the brain seems to process information, like, if there's a bunch of ways you can triangulate this, you can put somebody with, A perfect memory on a …”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 29:35 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026
Disclosure
Hodak: Science mostly raised from tech VCs, only pitching Bob Nelson
“So we mostly raised from tech investors, not that much from biotech investors. In fact, there's only one VC that I sought out at all at the Series A that I went to go pitch, which was Bob Nelson, who's a biotech investor.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 11:59 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 negative
Opinion
Hodak: Most people will not accept digital brain replicas as survival
“If I could make a copy of you, and you can talk to that copy, and you're like, okay, I will go away now. I just don't think that many people are going to be like, this is it.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 16:58 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hodak: Science Is Not Far From Completing a Mouse Connectome
“We're still relatively far from a human connectome, but I think we're not that far from a mouse connectome.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 19:26 From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak
Aug 20, 2026
Disclosure
Hodak: Science focuses on sensory restoration and substrate independence, not brain keyboards
“The, at the other end of that spectrum are things like generating vision or generating hearing or achieving substrate independence. Those are the things that we are focused on, not brain keyboard.”
Max Hodak Aug 20, 2026 ▶ 30:54 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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