- **Time-management for side projects**: Participants discussed strategies for carving out time for personal research, including part-time work, nootropics, and “double-dipping” by aligning employer tasks with personal AGI or Bitcoin-related goals.  
- **CogPrime & AGI architecture**: One member is implementing a custom AGI system inspired by Ben Goertzel’s CogPrime design (detailed in *Engineering General Intelligence*), but with different algorithms and memory structures; OpenCog’s codebase was criticized as low-quality and oversimplified.  
- **Open-source alignment**: All work is intended to be open-source from day one, eliminating IP conflicts when employer projects overlap with personal research.  
- **Smart-contracting language as AGI VM**: A fintech/Bitcoin smart-contracting language under development shares ~90 % of requirements with the internal virtual machine for the member’s AGI project, illustrating practical double-dipping.  
- **Drone-based infrastructure inspection**: Microsoft & GE used Azure IoT Suite to analyze drone imagery of power lines, automatically detecting damage and reducing human inspection costs; participants proposed extending this with mobile “drone-bee-hive” truck trailers for charging, storage, and rapid deployment.  
- **5th-Amendment & medical prostheses**: Discussion of U.S. legal precedent regarding compelled disclosure of data from implanted devices (e.g., pacemakers) in criminal cases; current view is that such data may not enjoy 5th-Amendment protection, similar to fingerprints or DNA.