# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (June 29, 2014)

* A user shared several academic papers related to integrated information theory and consciousness, including "Integrated Information in Discrete Dynamical Systems: Motivation and Theoretical Framework" and "Qualia: The Geometry of Integrated Information," using paperbot to retrieve and archive them.

* There was a critical discussion about The Seasteading Institute's focus on merchandise and fundraising rather than actual seasteading projects, with participants questioning why the organization hasn't made more concrete progress despite having received $500,000 in funding from Peter Thiel in 2008.

* A user shared an interesting historical anecdote about how President Clinton's March 2000 announcement that the human genome sequence could not be patented caused biotechnology stocks to plummet, with the sector losing approximately $50 billion in market capitalization over two days.

* A user mentioned they were disassembling and documenting a DNA synthesizer manufactured in 1989, taking photographs of circuit boards and fluidic components to be stitched together and matched with diagrams from the manual.

* Someone shared a thought experiment about trading lifespan in a hypothetical scenario: "If it were possible to directly trade lifespan, a 1000x earner could double his lifespan by shaving 1% off 100 people, compensate them with 2x their lifetime earnings, and still have 800 times as much as the typical person left over."