- Anthony Zador’s 2020 Nature Biotechnology paper on “RNA timestamps” was presented as a scalable alternative to electron microscopy for determining the age of individual RNA molecules in brain-mapping projects.  
- Elon Musk’s December 2021 Lex Fridman interview was referenced for his proposal of a Martian governance model featuring ultra-brief, transparent laws that are easier to repeal than to enact, plus automatic “garbage collection” of obsolete regulations.  
- Channel members explored an automated revenue-sharing scheme for open-source ecosystems, including a “PAYME” file that specifies flat-fee or annual licensing terms triggered at defined corporate-revenue thresholds.  
- A fluid-supply cryptocurrency design (“notes” borrowed against a fixed monthly per-capita coin grant) was debated; its money supply would expand or contract with network-wide repayment performance, and an early spec was posted at http://moredoingstuff.com:9001/p/ACES.  
- Vitalik Buterin’s “retroactive public-goods funding” post (Ethereum Optimism blog) was shared as a potential mechanism for rewarding open-source work, though participants questioned how to fund the pot and measure genuine value creation.  
- Maaku proposed bootstrapping atomically precise manufacturing (APM) by first creating a patent-marketplace and hype-cycle around nanotech IP, potentially raising hundreds of millions, while simultaneously producing an open-source CAD/CAM toolchain as a fallback.  
- The group discussed an “APM patent pool” whose shares would trade like speculative mining claims, funding both the CAD/CAM toolchain and eventual APM hardware; Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas’ “diamond tooltip” patent (http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/MinToolset.pdf) was cited as a key prior example.  
- Concerns that the patent pool could chill open-source CAD efforts were addressed with a pledge to adopt FOSS-friendly, RAND/FRAND licensing so designs can be freely shared while royalties are only due on physical manufacture.