- Edge.org contributor dismisses AI-risk concerns as “the smart person’s Kool-Aid,” arguing that worrying about unfriendly superintelligence is a cognitive error peculiar to the highly intelligent.  
- Channel members debate the long-term viability of academic URLs, citing a reproducible-research page at Western Sydney University as an example likely to break within five years.  
- Discussion of Ripple Labs’ ongoing fundraising notes that banks are enthusiastic about Ripple despite acknowledged technical flaws and questions about whether the system actually works as advertised.  
- A link to the Sigma cognitive architecture paper (agi-conference.org/2012) is shared; one participant observes that Sigma’s design overlaps with desired modifications to the OpenCog/CogPrime AGI framework.  
- Mozilla’s 2014 blog post on DRM and user-serving challenges is circulated, highlighting tensions between open-source values and digital-rights-management adoption in web standards.  
- Linux-compatible hardware recommendation: ThinkPenguin’s USB Wi-Fi adapter (TPE-N150USB) is endorsed for hassle-free GNU/Linux support.