• A Wiley paper on “Cryonics for all?” was circulated via Sci-Hub, prompting skepticism about the current technical and ethical viability of cryonics.  
• L29Ah provocatively compared cryonics to Islam, sparking brief discussion on the quasi-religious or faith-based aspects of the practice.  
• Archels raised the forward-looking question of how the channel should handle GPT-3 bots once they begin participating in conversations.  
• jrayhawk suggested treating incoming GPT-3 bots like any other participant: train them to contribute high-quality discourse.  
• fenn shared a new Science Advances paper describing a nanoporous-silicon / polypyrrole composite that exhibits electrochemical actuation with a voltage-strain coupling three orders of magnitude larger than the best ceramic actuators, operating at only 0.4–0.9 V.