- A new “Improving Autonomy” manifesto and accompanying WordPress site (https://improvingautonomy.wordpress.com) were introduced, sparking debate on whether human augmentation advocacy needs a dedicated PR/lobbying organization.  
- Critics argued the manifesto is too short and incoherent, and that it should start from present-day realities rather than assuming post-scarcity conditions like basic income and fully automated labor.  
- Discussion framed autonomy vs. cooperation as a tension: historical “progress” was said to come from increased cooperation (reducing individual autonomy), while the manifesto seeks to maximize personal resilience.  
- Life-extension was proposed as a lever to shift human psychology away from short-termism; if people expected to live through rare catastrophes (e.g., millennial volcanic eruptions) they would invest more in long-term risk mitigation.  
- Population reduction (to one-tenth current levels) was floated as an alternative path to resilience, instantly freeing resources and lowering aggregate consumption even with higher per-capita living standards.  
- Heavy, high-tech recycling was endorsed as a preferable alternative to population cuts for achieving sustainable resource loops.  
- A graph-based user-interface concept was shared: a weighted-Voronoi layout where screen real-estate is dynamically allocated to the most “focused” nodes, letting multiple applications cooperatively populate a shared semantic graph rather than occupy fixed rectangular windows.  
- Brain-computer interfaces were praised conceptually, but participants voiced distrust of both current computers and future mass-market BCI vendors (e.g., Facebook) as safe substrates for neural integration.  
- A Bitcoin-protocol transcript covering Jonas Schnelli’s BIP-150/BIP-151 peer authentication and encryption proposals was posted to the diyhplus wiki.  
- Wave Computing’s claim of a 1000× GPU-speed neural-network training chip (8 k cores at 8.6 GHz) was circulated for scrutiny.