• A quote from fenn frames the transhumanist ethos: “if you succeed in becoming a bridge to a better future, it may be because the ‘respectable’ ‘serious’ people knifed you in the back and walked across,” highlighting the tension between radical innovation and mainstream acceptance.

• Discussion pivoted to ultra-dense data storage, inspired by Stuart Armstrong’s interstellar-spreading paper (https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/intergalactic-spreading.pdf §3.1.1) that proposes encoding bits with carbon-12 vs carbon-13 atoms in diamond at 5 × 10²² bits per gram—about 50× denser than DNA.

• docl questioned whether graphene, rather than diamond, could make single-atom readout more practical; L29Ah countered that detecting individual nuclear masses in either lattice remains “not much” more reasonable.

• docl then suggested exploiting ¹³C nuclear-magnetic-resonance spin states (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-13_nuclear_magnetic_resonance) as a non-mass-based readout mechanism for the same ultra-dense storage concept.

• A brief pharmacology query about the nootropic Hydergine (ergoloid mesylates) was raised by a visitor, but no substantive experience reports followed.