• AIXI and its computable variant AIXItl were rejected as impractical for AGI because they are either incomputable or devolve into hideously inefficient brute-force search, and they cannot model the agent as part of the environment.

• maaku proposed an AGI architecture that fuses evolutionary program search (MOSES-style) with probabilistic reasoning over a knowledge base to create an “artificial scientist/engineer,” and repurposes Bitcoin/Blockstream’s formally verifiable VM substrate (Script 2.0) to host and prove safety properties of evolved programs.

• The group identified open-hardware verification as a prerequisite for trustworthy AGI, citing RISC-V plus Chisel-to-silicon flows as the most promising path, while lamenting that the overall hardware/OS security landscape remains “up shit creek” due to closed fabs and lack of large-scale formal verification.

• A debate on reverse-engineering the brain pitted maaku’s claim that no known neocortical algorithm beats engineered alternatives against kanzure’s reminder that humans are still the only demonstrated general scientists, suggesting brain-level insights may remain essential.

• Participants criticized genetic algorithms for under-performing against simple hill-climbing with random restarts and recommended lexicase selection and multi-objective methods like BIPOP-CMA-ES as more effective niches for evolutionary approaches.

• A 3-D-printed tourbillon watch by Christoph Laimer was highlighted as evidence that hobbyists can now achieve high-precision additive manufacturing.

• CVE-2016-0777, an OpenSSH client vulnerability leaking private keys to compromised servers, was flagged as an immediate upgrade requirement, alongside a link to the “SSHbleed” write-up illustrating how security flaws propagate once disclosed.

• Greg Maxwell’s maxim that “information wants to be free” was treated as a natural law, with participants linking his 2013 Bitcoin-cryptography talk transcript as a primary source for technical reasoning on the inevitability of perfect copyability undermining digital cash and privacy.

• Discussion of sub-dermal ballistic protection concluded that embedding armor under the skin raises the coercion threshold from “remove your vest” to compulsory surgery, though historical court-ordered medical operations suggest this may not guarantee autonomy.