- A call was made for long-term (20–50 year) policy requests that a hypothetical AI/biotech lobbyist organization could champion.  
- CNOT proposed full legalization of all biotech experimentation in the EU/Eurozone, arguing that current biosafety rules—mandating special secure facilities and procedures for any organism containing non-natural genes—effectively criminalize grassroots gene-hacking while multinationals remain unhindered.  
- Participants linked to a live debate between George Hotz and Eliezer Yudkowsky on AI safety and risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yQEA18C-XI.  
- Eli (via bridge) advocated destroying the remaining U.S. smallpox virus stocks and re-evaluating the necessity of gain-of-function research, a position seconded by superkuh, who noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had shifted his stance from opposition to support.