- A participant proposed using hashcash-style proof-of-work to curb the flood of auto-generated text expected on the internet, even when author identity or trust graphs are unknown.  
- Retrosynthesis-planning software was flagged as a likely dual-use technology; a link to a Morressier presentation titled “Modeling retrosynthesis prediction as a sequence of edits” was shared, though the original paper appears to have been removed.  
- The channel debated whether any technology can truly be non-dual-use, listing tongue-in-cheek examples (office chairs, amigurumis, tamagotchis, dental-flossers, green-fluorescent yogurt) to illustrate how hard it is to find purely benign inventions.  
- Concern was voiced about widespread enthusiasm for invasive biometrics and projects that tether online identity to personal surveillance devices, with one participant declining even to name the initiative.  
- A link to Scott Alexander’s Astral Codex Ten post “Galton, Ehrlich, Buck” was shared, highlighting the claim that coercive environmental policies have caused far more sterilizations and abortions than coercive eugenics programs.  
- A nutritional note was offered that a 66 g serving of Tea Leaf Salad delivers ~198 mg of caffeine—an unusually high dose for a food item.