- Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike both resigned from OpenAI on the same day, prompting discussion about the implications for AI safety and governance.  
- A Discord screenshot titled “Feel the AGI plebs!” was shared, followed by debate over widespread ignorance of “massive structural parallelism” and the claim that photon-electron coupling is still treated as esoteric despite 75 years of Feynman diagrams.  
- Participants linked two tweets by Sterling Cooley (@SterlingCooley) arguing that modern physics education undervalues the foundational role of quantum electrodynamics.  
- A Medium article by Nic Carter, “Five Perspectives on Stablecoins,” was circulated, sparking a conversation about whether any truly free-floating, non-USD-pegged stablecoin exists and how MakerDAO’s DAI still relies on USD price oracles.  
- The group debated whether stablecoins are simply “fiat crypto,” noting that most are tokenized bank deposits on blockchains rather than algorithmic or commodity-backed instruments.  
- Discussion turned to historical precedents for asset confiscation—Executive Order 6102 (1933 gold seizure), Nazi expropriations, and post-Katrina gun confiscation—framed as warnings that governments will similarly target cryptocurrencies.  
- New U.S. regulations requiring reporting of crypto transfers above $10,000 were highlighted as a contemporary parallel to earlier confiscatory policies.  
- The recent Dutch conviction of Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev for money laundering was cited as evidence that governments are criminalizing the creation of privacy-preserving software, with participants worrying that “regulation of Virtual Assets and AI will be the most dangerous decel regulation in modern history.”