- The Genetic Choice Project (geneticchoiceproject.com) was shared as a resource, likely related to open-source or DIY genetic engineering and reproductive autonomy.  
- Llama-3 8B was benchmarked at 30 tokens/second in-browser via WebGPU, demonstrating rapid progress in client-side large-language-model inference.  
- A $100 robotic arm design circulated on Twitter, highlighting ultra-low-cost hardware for automation and maker-level robotics.  
- Effective Altruism’s pivot from global-poverty work to AI-doom advocacy was criticized in a TechDirt article, prompting debate over whether EA uses rationalist rhetoric as a “facade” to legitimize AI-risk alarmism.  
- Participants argued that focusing AI-safety efforts solely on Western labs is futile, noting the absence of comparable Chinese or Russian AI-doom discourse and the heightened danger posed by military autonomous-weapon programs.