• A long discussion on ADHD traits in the transhumanist community framed the condition as a near-universal experience, with participants sharing personal stories of academic attrition, hyperfocus on terminal work, and the irony of being congratulated for lacking a criminal record after diagnosis.

• Sci-Hub was credited with wrecking sleep schedules by granting frictionless access to research papers, highlighting the double-edged impact of open-access science on cognitive load and productivity.

• A new MIT-derived fusion start-up, Avalanche Energy, was introduced; it advertises 5 kW “desk-top” reactors based on electrostatic confinement (an “orbitron” concept using crossed elliptical orbits) and was traced back to Tom McGuire’s 2008 PhD thesis on inertial electrostatic confinement.

• Skeptics noted that small-scale Farnsworth fusors and other electrostatic schemes historically suffer from prohibitive energy losses, while optimists argued that even failed fusion projects can yield valuable engineering spin-offs and remain attractive to VCs betting on founder pedigree.

• Participants circulated key technical references: McGuire’s thesis (MIT dspace), an AIAA conference paper (10.2514/6.2008-4675), and additional Springer and MIT PDFs on electrostatic confinement and field-reversed configurations.

• A Nature Biotechnology paper on phage-assisted continuous evolution (PACE) of CRISPR-free, all-protein base editors was shared, promising improved efficiency and expanded targeting scope for both mitochondrial and nuclear genome editing.