Co-Founder of Brain Implant Startup Neuralink Leaves the Company

According to The Byte, the co-founder of brain implant startup Neuralink, Max Hodak, announced he's leaving the company. From the report: Hodak, who started the ultra-ambitious venture with Elon Musk and had until recently served as its president, didn't say why he was leaving the company or on what terms. In other words, it's not currently clear whether he left voluntary or was fired. "I am no longer at Neuralink (as of a few weeks ago)," he wrote in a tweet. "I learned a ton there and remain a huge cheerleader for the company! Onward to new things." Last month, Hodak made headlines when he tweeted that the startup has the technological advances and savvy to create its own "Jurassic Park."

Ate his own "dog food", eh?

[Tablizer]

I. Am. Compelled. By. Unknown. Forces. To. Leave. The. Organization."

Maybe not being listed as an author sucked.

[sonoronos]

Maybe Elon Musk putting himself as sole author on a paper publishing Neuralinks research annoyed the cofounder.

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[crgrace]

Here's a link.

https://www.jmir.org/2019/10/e... [jmir.org]

We laugh about it at work all the time.

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[chas.williams]

| former and current Neuralink employees Some guys that work for me did some things. Thanks for the credit, Elon.

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[Nabeel_co]

It wouldn't be the first time the original technical founders of a company Elon joined left.

Let's see... It happened at PayPal, Tesla, Neuralink... Hmmm I wonder how many others...

Oh, and don't forget, Elon bought his way into PayPal because XPay (his payment company) was failing, and joined Tesla a few years after it's founding, drove out the founders and then got confused and called himself a founder of Tesla too, despite never founding either PayPay or Tesla.

NeuraHyperLinkLoop

[kopecn]

Can we collectively agree to stop listening to Musk and not be bothered by him any more?

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[account_deleted]

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[javofex917]

Sure. Go ahead and ignore the greatest man of our Century. Your loss. We will be on Mars with Him, and laughing.

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[Actually, I do RTFA]

Subject, the AI has sensed you laughing in conjunction wit the great Musk. You oxygen supply will be terminated unless the computer detects you say 100-hail-musks.

I could think of worse places to be than under the dystopian rule of Musk, but not many.

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[Powercntrl]

We will be on Mars with Him, and laughing.

That's delirium from the Martian atmosphere leaking in.

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[noodler]

Sure. Go ahead and ignore the greatest man of our Century. Your loss. We will be on Mars with Him, and laughing.

Yeah, i heard that the radiation makes you feel funny.

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[DamnOregonian]

We will be on Mars with Him, and laughing.

Stop...
Don't...
Come back...

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[stabiesoft]

It is difficult, especially when the news a week ago did a spiel on how neuralink was looking for vet techs. So that can only mean they using animals for experimentation. I was repulsed.

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[BranMan]

Why not? It would be just like eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

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[nightflameauto]

Musk is an interesting character on a certain level. I mean, say what you will, but he tends to mire himself into companies and then propel them into something much more than anybody would think they're capable of. Nobody thought SpaceX would be where it is now when it started out. Granted, it's not where Musk *SAYS it would be, but it's a lot further along than any rational, contemplative person would have pegged it. So, somewhere in all that hyperbole and silliness there's something ticking away in th

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[Areyoukiddingme]

Then you've got his public persona, which, to put it mildly, is that of a bumbling, stoned moron.

You obviously haven't met many highly intelligent people. Elon Musk speaks like an extremely intelligent, extremely well-read engineer who was lucky to fall where he did in terms of brain activity and associativity. If his neurotransmitters were just a tiny bit more efficient than they are, he'd be a manic-depressive paranoid schizophrenic.

In other words, he'd be suffering from all the myriad conditions that happen to a human when their brain chemistry runs away from them. What you interpret as bumbling/

Musk fired him

[RitchCraft]

Still upset that he leaked plans for dinosaur takeover.

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[Powercntrl]

TBH, I'd rather have a dinosaur park than a brain implant.

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[willy_me]

There was never a plan for a dinosaur park - just a regular park where the brain implant is programmed to make you believe you see dinosaurs.

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[JonnyCalcutta]

I can do that with mushrooms. Much cheaper and less headaches.

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[bill_mcgonigle]

Well he said it was a bad idea for a founder to leave before MVP, so, yeah, Musk fired him.

We won't know why for a long time.

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[LordHighExecutioner]

No. Hodak got a brain implant, then he was programmed to politely resign from the company...

Which one is more unstable?

[Required Snark]

So is Hodak too crazy to work with Musk, or is Musk too crazy to work with Hodak?

Maybe they are both over the edge, or the question might just be impossible to answer.

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[nightflameauto]

So is Hodak too crazy to work with Musk, or is Musk too crazy to work with Hodak?

Yes. The answer you are looking for is 'yes.'

Brain Implant Drain?

[SpaghettiPattern]

As in subject.

Look up the case in Moody Alabama

[SumDog]

About a year ago in Moody Alabama, there was a massive police raid. There was some raw/hot mic footage from the news van archived here:

https://archive.org/details/Mo... [archive.org]

At around the 18 min mark, a women is talking about "... Digital Mind Control, for I would say probably 6 years or since 2015...He was staying at this hotel, well I’ve been under surveillance from FBI, w/e, CIA and others and so they tipped them off. And so, they’ve been here staying two weeks, breaking in my house, they stole my