• The Singularity Summit 2009 videos were released on Vimeo; participants singled out talks by Ed Boyden, Stuart Hameroff, and Aubrey de Grey as worthwhile, while dismissing the “world-changing panel” and Stephen Wolfram’s performance as vacuous or comedic.  
• A missing static library, libShHealOper.a, was identified as part of the Salome Geometry (sgeom) package; the discussion revolved around why it was absent and how to satisfy OpenCASCADE dependencies when building Debian packages.  
• NLTK’s WordNet interface was explored as a tool for synonym-based semantic clustering; links to NLTK documentation, the Brown corpus, and a “synonym-following game” blog post were shared to prototype word-similarity algorithms.  
• A grasshopper with a missing limb sparked a tongue-in-cheek debate on transhumanist ethics, limb regeneration in insects, and the merits of keeping the insect as a low-cost biology experiment.  
• Participants mocked the idea that #hplusroadmap members had delivered formal talks at the Summit, clarifying that no such presentations occurred and that the published schedule was fabricated.  
• wrldpc2 asked for research on AI systems that can automatically detect normative (value-laden) assertions in text, noting the channel’s usual avoidance of pure AI topics.  
• Links to MIT EmTech 09 talks (via Technology Review) and an EFF “autonomous vehicle” video were circulated, alongside a YouTube claim that the entire Calculus I curriculum can be taught in under 20 minutes.  
• ybit expressed frustration about volunteering at future conferences, fearing assignment to camera duty instead of substantive participation.