- The ethics and feasibility of “brain preservation” for life-extension were debated, with a link to the paper “The Ethics of Exponential Life Extension through Brain Preservation” (http://jetpress.org/v26.1/cerullo.htm) and criticism that its technical references are outdated.  
- Participants questioned the popular claim that nightly sleep merely “pauses” consciousness and that the connectome alone reboots identity each morning, calling the idea technically implausible.  
- Cryonics was noted to be under-funded, while connectomics research was argued to be advancing, suggesting a shift in focus from whole-body freezing to detailed brain-structure preservation.  
- A practical discussion explored using children as lab assistants: a 5-year-old with prior soldering experience was cited as evidence that kids can quickly master basic biohacking techniques such as sterile handling, PCB layout CAD, and fine-pitch soldering.  
- Legal and ethical concerns around child labor laws were examined, including whether unpaid help in a non-profit DIY lab counts as “work” and how homeschooling families integrate children into farm or lab tasks.  
- Adoption was half-seriously proposed as a route to acquiring “optimized” labor, prompting debate on whether genetic screening of adoptees for aptitude would be socially acceptable.  
- The metaphor “a jet engine mounted on a bicycle” was used to illustrate the mismatch between the human brain’s capabilities and the limitations of the biological body, underscoring transhumanist arguments for radical augmentation.