- The group dissected Roger Williams’ novella “The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect,” debating whether its post-Singularity utopia is actually a dystopia and whether the AI’s final “undoing” of the Singularity is coherent or merely a narrative trick.  
- Participants criticized the story as possible SingInst propaganda—“botch the Singularity and this is what you get”—while others defended the protagonist’s self-determinist motives against charges of primitivism.  
- QuantumG described a Second Life scene where wind-driven chimes produced realistic, physics-only sound with no scripted audio, illustrating emergent complexity in virtual worlds.  
- kanzure highlighted OpenDesignEngine.net, a nascent Kickstarter-funded “sourceforge for open hardware” built on Redmine, and questioned why it was being promoted over more mature repository/issue-tracker options.  
- A paper on “Network-wide Integration of Stem Cell-Derived Neurons and Mouse Cortical Neurons using Microfabricated Co-culture Devices” was circulated as a practical route toward engineered neural networks.  
- Facebook’s new “frictionless sharing” API was flagged as a potential tool for large-scale social engineering or “super-evil” exploits.  
- Elon Musk’s recent remark that humanity must become multi-planetary to avoid extinction was recommended as a sound-bite for advocacy materials.