- The channel debated whether the TV adaptation of *Altered Carbon* is “deathist propaganda,” with some preferring the original novel and others defending the show’s aesthetic value.  
- Cost of mind uploading was estimated at ~$40 k per month for 20 PB at $2/TB cloud pricing, prompting jokes that “the brain is still the best implementation of brain we have.”  
- Cryonics discussion centered on whether whole-body preservation is worth the extra storage versus head-only, given the loss of detailed sensorimotor mapping in frozen brains.  
- 5-D optical “memory crystal” technology (360 TB, multi-billion-year lifetime) was cited as a potential ultra-long-term archival medium for mindfiles or other critical data.  
- Participants weighed DIY coronavirus testing: shipping test kits to users instead of shipping patient samples to labs, framed as a safer, more distributed pandemic response.  
- A SynBioBeta COVID-19 town-hall link was shared to explore how synthetic biologists could contribute to outbreak mitigation.  
- ExplicitCAD, an open-source parametric CAD tool, was posted as a resource for hardware prototyping.  
- Shellworld megastructures—concentric, pillar-supported layers around planets—were discussed via two JBIS papers and an external PDF archive.  
- Hard-drive pricing was dissected: raw disks ~$15/TB, but enclosures, redundancy, and 99.9999 % availability drive costs far higher; community interest in lower-availability, lower-cost tiers.