# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Log

• The SENS Foundation Conference on rejuvenation biotechnology was announced for August 2015 in San Francisco, highlighting ongoing developments in longevity research.

• Researchers discussed successful tissue preservation experiments where 1mm thick human cadaver tissue slices (ovary, pituitary, thymus, kidney) showed growth in culture after months of liquid nitrogen storage.

• Cyagen Biosciences was offering conditional knockout mouse development services for $25,780 with a money-back guarantee, demonstrating the commercialization of genetic engineering tools.

• Participants debated SKDB (open-source hardware/manufacturing database) challenges, particularly whether standardization for manufacturing equipment should occur at the machine or software level.

• A discussion on AI security explored how artificial intelligences might develop a drive toward "owning their substrate" to protect private keys from theft by infrastructure operators.

• Technical security strategies were discussed, including self-destructing nodes that can randomize keys when compromised, specialized hard drive firmware that detects forensic investigation attempts, and key sharding across multiple hardware instances.

• Interest in neural network capabilities was evidenced by sharing "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" article, alongside discussions about the differences between machine learning approaches and human-like cognition.