HeyJaredPreserving Hope
Tracking progress in turning fate into choice through brain preservation. Official newsletter of the Brain Preservation Foundation.
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Brain preservation as existential risk reduction (opens the original)
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“…it will actually be possible to cure most human disease in ~5-10 years”-Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, writing on X, August 2026.About 170,000 people will die today, the overwhelming majority of them from illness. Amodei is claiming that on the back of AI progress, most of that could stop.It’s a bold claim, but with every passing year it sounds slightly less outlandish than it did the year before.
Join us at Sparks' Brain Preservation Summit 2026 (opens the original)
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Sparks Brain Preservation, a preservation services provider and research organization, is hosting a two-day gathering of researchers, clinicians, and thinkers working on the scientific foundations of brain preservation, hosted at their facility in Salem, Oregon, on the weekend of September 19-20.I think it will be both fascinating and fun - there are lots of great speakers working on the cutting edge of brain preservation science and services, including:Alexander German (Hiber, rec
Why is assisted dying so rare, even where it’s legal? (opens the original)
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Most people do not die quietly in their sleep, quickly and comfortably, at the end of a long life. That death - often portrayed in media, the one most tacitly expect - is the exception. Deaths are typically slower, more degrading, and more painful than that.Consider, for example, the roughly 15,000 people dying from cancer in the Netherlands right now1. A tumor that began in one place has broken loose and seeded itself elsewhere - the liver, the lungs, the bones - and from there it presses on ne
A hundred grand for one more year (opens the original)
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Make the case for preserving the brains of the dying, as I do, and one objection turns up without fail. I don’t mean the philosophical ones - whether a revived person would still be you, whether anyone in the future will bother reviving them - though those come up too. I mean the one about the money. “Isn’t this absurdly expensive? Isn’t it just a plaything for billionaires who can’t accept that they’ll die like the rest of us?”The honest start to a response is to admit that yes, right now, if y
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