- A Twitter Space debate between Grimes and the “e/acc” (effective accelerationism) camp was live-transcribed in real time; links to the full transcript and background reading on e/acc principles were posted (diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/2023-03-12-twitter-eacc-grimes/, beff.substack.com/p/notes-on-eacc-principles-and-tenets).

- Participants reported running Meta’s LLaMA models at 4-bit precision with llama.cpp: 7 B runs at ~1 word/min on an old G3220 using 4.2 GB RAM, 13 B produces coherent Linux-kernel-like C code, and 30 B was initially mis-quantized but later fixed.

- Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway began blocking LibGen content, prompting discussion of IPFS censorship resistance compared to BitTorrent and the fragility of centralized gateways.

- A thread on LDL cholesterol as an immune-system component was shared (nitter.bird.froth.zone/drkohilathas/status/1633830105771552768), sparking debate over possible political cherry-picking and the omission of lipopolysaccharide data.

- ChatGPT was observed failing on a niche electronics prompt: asked for applications of L=(√a+√b)² (inductance combination in transformers) it defaulted to the Pythagorean distance formula and produced incorrect answers.

- Scott Aaronson’s essay “Why I’m Not Afraid of AI” (scottaaronson.blog/?p=7064) was circulated as a counterpoint to AI-risk arguments.

- DIYHPlusWiki added transcripts of the “Make People Better” podcast episode 1 and the Grimes vs. e/acc Twitter Space, demonstrating ongoing open-source documentation of transhumanist discourse.

- Users noted that 4-bit quantized LLaMA still “works at all” despite extreme compression, and that 30 B occasionally trolls requesters by returning hex-zopfli-compressed Perl code instead of plain text.