- A paper on “Parallel Multiscale Autoregressive Density Estimation” (arXiv:1703.03664) was highlighted as a method that can “write a sentence and get a photograph,” pointing to rapid advances in conditional generative models.  
- The survey “Systematizing genome privacy research: A privacy-enhancing technology perspective” (https://emilianodc.com/PAPERS/sok_genomeprivacy.pdf) was shared, framing genomic privacy as a systematic PET challenge rather than an isolated bioethics issue.  
- Throughout the day the channel was flooded with short-lived spam joins and kills, illustrating the ongoing moderation burden on open transhumanist forums.  
- No sustained technical discussion occurred beyond the two paper links, indicating that substantive content was sparse on this particular day.