- A Vietnamese blog post about an “aquaponics water liberation prize” was shared, hinting at open-source, low-cost water-purification or food-production experiments.  
- Utopiah asked for science-fiction or theoretical treatments of mind-uploading used not for “escape to the net” but as an iterative self-improvement tool—running copies to test cognitive tweaks and then merging the best back into the biological original.  
- Steel and others suggested checking LessWrong short stories or contacting Anders Sandberg / Randal Koene for deeper material on this “upload-as-optimizer” concept.  
- The channel’s regular link diet was mentioned: LessWrong, ImmInst, the /r/transhumanism subreddit, and assorted futurist forums are used as primary scanning sources for new ideas and papers.  
- AlonzoTG expressed skepticism about “Terasem,” wondering whether it is a single eccentric individual or an actual movement, and noted the difficulty of locating reliable membership numbers or threat-assessment data.  
- klafka voiced interest in discussing “big data” techniques and asked about the Strata conference in New York, indicating ongoing curiosity about large-scale data analytics within the transhumanist toolset.