- A new “market-based evolutionary system” for intelligence augmentation was proposed: programs compete for CPU/memory using an internal currency; users reward the program in control, which in turn pays helpers, creating an evolutionary pressure toward user-desired behavior.  
- The same researcher (eb3c90) released early backend code at https://github.com/eb4890/agorint and described exotic variation mechanisms such as on-the-fly generation of new programs from natural-language user input.  
- kanzure circulated a recent slide deck summarizing active projects in the channel: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/2017-02-03-beacon.pdf (covers transhumanist biohacking, open-source science, and AI work).  
- A paper on “Asymmetric Proof-of-Work using Merkle Trees” (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03588v1.pdf) was shared as a potential building block for decentralized or energy-efficient consensus mechanisms.  
- eb3c90 expressed specific interest in the “electronic control of DNA polymerase” project mentioned in the slide deck, asking for progress updates—highlighting ongoing curiosity about programmable, electronically addressable biochemistry.