• A Kurzgesagt video shared in-channel argues that fossil-fuel energy kills ~500× more people per unit energy than nuclear power, with links to the original tweet and YouTube analysis.  
• An eNeuro paper (2018) demonstrated that RNA extracted from trained Aplysia sea slugs can transfer long-term sensitization to untrained animals, supporting the concept of an “epigenetic engram” and sparking discussion on non-neural memory substrates.  
• Participants clarified that nuclear weapons production does not require power reactors; uranium-235 enrichment via centrifuges or plutonium-239 breeding in dedicated reactors are the critical paths, decoupling civilian power from proliferation risk.  
• Long-term speculation included crashing terrestrial metal prices by aerobraking refined asteroid ores and developing low-temperature catalytic routes to convert methane or CO₂ directly into plastics and commodity chemicals.  
• Post-scarcity economics debate centered on artificial scarcity in land, healthcare, and education despite material abundance, with proposals for universal automation dividends and critiques of the traditional “work system.”  
• Welfare-system analysis highlighted perverse incentives such as California Medicaid’s asset “spend-down” rules, illustrating how means-tested programs penalize saving and capital accumulation.  
• The group adopted “build things, don’t just theorize” as a guiding ethic, citing the cautionary tale of the cypherpunk movement’s failure to ship code despite strong ideology.  
• Molecular manufacturing discussion moved from classic diamondoid nanofactory animations to near-term chemistries: Calysta’s methane-to-protein FeedKind process, spiroligomers/peptoids for archival data storage, and the lone positional-assembly effort at Canadian Bank Note’s stealth “Nanofactory” program.  
• Schafmeister’s Clasp project—Common Lisp on LLVM for molecular design—was praised for technical depth; links to 2018 LLVM Dev Meeting talks were provided for deeper study.  
• Shannon’s Maxim (“The enemy knows the system”) was invoked as a design principle for transhumanist infrastructure, emphasizing adversary-aware engineering from day one.