- The channel debated the root causes of anti-nuclear sentiment in the U.S.; one view blamed Cold-War fear and petrochemical lobbying for over-regulation, while another emphasized public perception of long-term land loss after accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima.  
- Participants linked current wildfire-driven power outages in California to the closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and argued that lack of reliable baseload generation is already affecting daily life.  
- A full transcript of Elon Musk’s 28 Aug 2020 Neuralink progress demo was produced and archived at http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/2020-08-28-neuralink/.  
- Discussion of Neuralink’s technical approach included comparisons to the Utah array and Theodore Berger’s earlier hippocampal implants, plus a tutorial on two-photon microscopy as a non-invasive method for high-resolution, depth-targeted neural observation.  
- A participant who had considered a neuro Ph.D. in the late 1990s recounted that even then the field suffered from “papers by catalog”—more devices than qualified users—and lamented how little has changed since.  
- The idea of using instrumented biological brains as computationally efficient “computronium” was floated; researcher dr-orlovsky was noted to be exploring this but without public documentation.  
- A brief search was launched for a 1990s transhumanist murder-mystery novel featuring a brain-implanted cylindrical computer and robotic nerve-stitching; no title was identified.  
- An MRI case of extreme hydrocephaly showing near-normal cognition despite ~98 % brain-volume loss was shared via Reddit as evidence of neural plasticity.