- A Belgian biohacker is openly injecting volunteers with animal DNA under the guise of “art projects,” marketing DIY kits called “Frankenstein Kits,” prompting debate on whether such unregulated stunts invite harsher crack-downs on independent experimentation.  
- Channel members argued the merits of regulation: nsh defended modern safety standards (citing ketamine synthesis specs and drug purity assays) while kanzure countered that regulators rarely act “wisely” and that good outcomes can occur without heavy oversight.  
- Ryan Carey (FHI recruiter) sought 3–10 leading researchers for Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute; names floated included Anders Sandberg, Adam Marblestone, Carl Shulman, Stephen Hsu, David Dalrymple, Randal Koene, Andrew Hessel, Anselm Levskaya, Dylan Morris, Joseph Meyerowitz, and Jascha Sohl-Dickstein.  
- Carey proposed a 3-day, ~10-person workshop plus follow-up report on the intersection of biotech, synthetic biology, DIY-bio, and FHI-style long-term risk analysis, with kanzure volunteering to contribute or transcribe.  
- Discussion revisited the 2008 Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap: CarbonCopies and FHI are separately planning an updated edition, suggesting renewed momentum in the emulation community.  
- Flynn-effect reversal was highlighted via a 2018 Intelligence paper (Flynn & Shayer) showing declining Piaget-style scores in developed countries, linked to an NBC op-ed on the societal risks of falling IQ.  
- A pre-print on “Invisible Designers” (parasite-driven brain evolution) and sleep-deprivation studies (24 h awake → 50 % drop in dev skills; chronic <7 h sleep → broad cognitive decline) were shared as cautionary data for bio-optimizers.