- Russia’s Ministry of Health publicly declared that “issuing permission to edit the human genome in clinical practice would now be a premature and irresponsible measure,” highlighting the global regulatory chill following the He Jiankui affair.  
- Participants debated whether investigative journalism (e.g., Antonio Regalado’s reporting) that exposes individual scientists is a net societal loss because it triggers “modern witch hunts” that can destroy careers and chill future research.  
- A detailed discussion explored using frozen embryos—or purely digital whole-genome data—as a legal loophole to the Rule Against Perpetuities, potentially enabling multi-century “child-creation trusts” funded by today’s payments.  
- Cryonics providers Alcor and Nectome were compared: Alcor preserves whole bodies/heads with no legal guarantee of revival, whereas Nectome pursues high-fidelity structural preservation (synaptic proteins, membrane-bound vesicles) aimed at future whole-brain emulation or digitization.  
- The group examined whether blockchain-based timelocks (e.g., Bitcoin scripts) could enforce century-scale wealth transfers, circumventing traditional trust law and creating “unbreakable dynastic fortunes.”  
- Legal nuances were clarified: corporations can operate indefinitely because they are always owned by living people, but trusts benefiting the dead violate perpetuities rules; thus any long-term plan must rely on voluntary corporate promises rather than binding trusts.  
- Links shared included a Texas A&M law-review article on embryos and perpetuities, Jeff Kaufman’s blog post and PDF on the same topic, Bloomberg’s “Meet the Spy—11 Kids with $250 Billion” story, and the NEURON simulator for biophysically detailed neuron modeling.