- Sam Altman is reportedly seeking **$7 trillion** to fund global compute and energy infrastructure for next-generation AI projects, prompting debate over whether capital or manufacturing capacity is the real bottleneck.  
- A new paper on **“Neural Abstract Reasoner”** (arXiv:2011.09860) and an OpenReview discussion (6Um8P8Fvyhl) were circulated as relevant advances in neural-symbolic reasoning.  
- Participants explored **biological-to-silicon knowledge distillation**: training cortical organoids on electrode arrays, then transferring their learned probability distributions into conventional neural networks via model-extraction techniques to exploit biology’s sample-efficiency and energy advantages.  
- The **Enhanced Games**—a proposed pro-enhancement Olympic-style event—was highlighted when retired swimmer James Magnussen announced a $1 million bounty for breaking the 50 m freestyle record, sparking discussion on WADA’s influence and the ethics of unlimited engineering in sport.  
- A 35-year Swedish cohort study on **blood biomarkers of centenarians** (GeroScience, 2024) was shared as empirical data for longevity research.  
- Two synthetic-biology papers were linked: a **single-DNA-molecule genetic circuit** that acts as an autonomous dissipative nanodevice (Nature Communications, 2024) and **pharmacological inducers of reversible hypometabolism** for whole-organ preservation (eLife, 2024).  
- The **Human Speechome Project** was critiqued for only ever recording one child; participants argued that modern toddlers already generate millions of hours of audio via smartphones, enabling large-scale naturalistic language-acquisition datasets.  
- The **bitcoin-dev mailing list** migrated from the Linux Foundation to a Google Groups instance; links and archival instructions were provided for continuity.  
- Discussion of **astrolinguistics** and **CosmicOS** framed interstellar messaging protocols as blueprints for two-way interactive language learning between humans, animals, and AI models, emphasizing the need for feedback loops rather than static transmissions.  
- Concerns were raised that **examine.com** lacks coverage and manpower; participants proposed automated literature ingestion and an independent “certified not-bullshit” supplement-verification service outside FDA control.