- Jason Crawford posted an answer to his “quote quiz” on the history of progress at https://rootsofprogress.org/quote-quiz-answer.  
- A Reddit-hosted video of a seal playing a video game was shared as an example of non-human interaction with digital interfaces (https://v.redd.it/0jk804l2unya1).  
- Participants debated the Unabomber’s manifesto and strategy: GeoHot’s blog post “A Hope” (https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/10/13/a-hope.html) was cited, and the Washington Post’s 1995 publication of the 35 000-word manifesto was noted (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm).  
- Discussion of an impending AI-generated spam flood led to proposals for using proof-of-work or hashcash to “stamp” content; concerns were raised that botnets could simply perform the work.  
- Superkuh argued that disabling JavaScript would eliminate ~99 % of AI-generated web spam, since monetized actors overwhelmingly rely on JS.  
- Climate-engineering ideas were explored: aerosols lack spatial precision for localized cooling, whereas the “weather machine” concept (https://foresight.org/the-weather-machine/) and ultra-light SEAgel aerogel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAgel) were mentioned as potentially more controllable approaches.  
- Participants warned that nonlinear atmospheric dynamics are poorly understood; any intervention could trigger unknown feedback loops, and designs should include hard failsafes rather than relying solely on AI models.  
- A whimsical historical counterfactual asked why medieval witches did not cultivate bioluminescent moss or fungi to read at night instead of depending on church-supplied beeswax candles.