# Key Themes from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussions

• The channel represents a technically-focused transhumanist community that explicitly prioritizes practical development over philosophical discussion, with participants criticizing organizations like Zero State and Humanity+ for focusing too much on community-building rather than technological advancement.

• Participants debated terminology distinctions between "transhuman" (enhanced humans or those working toward enhancement) and "posthuman" (god-like entities), with some arguing that a transhuman must be non-biological while others advocated for a sliding scale of enhancement.

• Technical infrastructure discussions included wiki platforms (with frustration about traditional wikis' high contributor friction), OpenQwaq as a virtual meeting platform, and microservice architectures using message queue technologies like Resque and Celery.

• Practical transhumanist projects were discussed, including a cryonics provider being bootstrapped to cooperate with CI/Alcor, organ printing technology, and open-source projects like SKDB (hardware package manager), NanoEngineer (molecular modeling), and DIY biohacking resources.

• The "Quantified Prestige" system was presented as a reputation-based economy where users allocate esteem points to generate virtual currency, aiming to reward digital content creators and incentivize ethical behavior.

• A significant debate centered on hardware versus software approaches to artificial intelligence, with some arguing hardware limitations are the primary bottleneck while others contended software improvements could make significant progress with existing hardware.

• Participants criticized the "Friendliness" concept in AI safety as fundamentally flawed because ethical values are subjective and contextual, making it impossible to guarantee value preservation across open-ended evolution.

• The channel serves as a repository for scientific resources, with links shared to extensive paper collections on topics like longevity and microfluidics (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/longevity/ and http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/microfluidics/).