- The channel’s “no-philosophy” rule was explicitly invoked when a Karl Marx quote (“The philosophers have only interpreted the world…”) was posted, sparking a brief debate over whether merely writing ideas counts as “changing the world-state.”  
- Archels linked the Marx quote to the DIY transhumanist “Declaration” hosted at http://diyhpl.us/wiki/declaration/, framing it as a practical manifesto rather than abstract philosophy.  
- Paperbot was used to retrieve three versions of a Nature Protocols article (doi:10.1038/nprot.2011.371) on request, demonstrating the channel’s routine use of automated tools to bypass paywalls and share primary literature.  
- Gradstudentbot, a Markov-chain bot that posts only when the channel is active, was discussed; its corpus is seeded with typical graduate-student laments and is triggered stochastically during conversation.  
- Joking aside, members agreed that systematically reading every paper mirrored by paperbot would likely raise one’s effective intelligence, illustrating the community’s culture of self-experimentation through information ingestion.