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One of the best ways to reduce Nectome's long-term risk is to show that preservation is a thing people want by buying one yourself; this is a critical time in the organization and your contributions now have an outsized impact in our likelihood of success. I'm happy to discuss our preservation personally with anyone who's interested. Our current presales are open until the end of April.

https://nectome.substack.com/p/preservation-pre-sales

Up till now I've been talking about Nectome's recent advances in structural preservation, and what that means for the immediate concerns of doing preservation to our standards. With this post I want to do something different: I want to talk about Nectome's future and how we're thinking about long-term care of people who entrust their preservation to us.

In contrast to the last posts where I had experiments and images to back up what I was saying, this post is more speculative. I've spent the last ten years thinking about how to do long-term care for people: I've talked with lawyers and hedge fund managers; I've studied the world's end of life laws; I've listened to people like Mike Darwin tell the stories of past cryonics attempts. We have a [...]

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Outline:

(01:57) Robust to outages and cheap to maintain

(06:00) Priced to thrive, run on endowment

(10:28) Allies who keep us honest and wise

(14:19) Proactive about laws and culture

(18:14) S-risks

(20:06) Towards the future, with optimism and care

The original text contained 5 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
April 10th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yaQFW3DhZTLdQngvD/some-thoughts-on-nectome-s-risk-and-resilience

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.