Person
Asked why a company building retinal implants would look at oncology, Hodak reframes the entire body as life support. The brain is the one organ that cannot be transplanted even in principle; the heart, liver and lungs are, in his phrase, support characters. The joke is the argument.
Sarah Guo had just asked how the clinicians he works with react to his premise. Hodak co-founded Neuralink and now runs Science Corp, where that assumption is doing real work rather than rhetorical work — the implants only make sense if it holds. He treats the backlash as weather, not as an argument to be won.