- **Life-extension priority**: Channel consensus frames “living forever” as the first-order goal because it buys unlimited time for all other projects, while cautioning that realistic interventions may require 100–200 years and will not resemble the “20-year-old Greek god” fantasy.  
- **Cryonics research program**: Rather than last-minute freezing, participants advocate a long-term experimental program—e.g., selectively breeding mice for cryonics tolerance—with Alcor membership relegated to a fallback “plan B.”  
- **Project-planning methodology**: Recommended workflow is to mind-map “live forever” on a whiteboard, recursively decompose every unclear node, then sequence the results to expose a critical path; David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” is cited as essential reading for task management.  
- **Critique of rational engineering**: Skepticism voiced that purely rational protein or metabolic engineering can defeat aging; the combinatorial explosion of metabolic pathways is held up as evidence that evolutionary or brute-force search will remain indispensable.  
- **30-year nanotech roadmap**: One participant’s plan is to deliver Freitas/Merkle nanomachinery toolkits to Aubrey de Grey, enabled by falling costs of focused-ion-beam (FIB) and atomic-force microscopy (AFM) hardware.  
- **SETI and the Great Silence**: Discussion proposes that advanced civilizations may use encryption and minimal-power transmissions, and that existing astronomical structures (binary-star arrangements, background noise) could already be large-scale astro-engineering misinterpreted as natural phenomena.  
- **DIY bio-hardware updates**: A member reports acquiring a tablet with an integrated pico-projector for potential photolithography use, while awaiting delivery of an inexpensive laser-etcher whose crude homing behavior is noted as a limitation.  
- **Key resources shared**: Links include Rusty Russell’s Scaling Bitcoin talk on IBLT block-propagation (diyhpl.us), EPFL FIB deposition/etching slides, Tor Project blog on Great Firewall active-probing, a Truthcoin paper on prediction-market manipulation, and the community-annotated science-paper feed Fermat’s Library.