Nectome

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Nectome is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 31, 2022 and March 16, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “Nectome hiring a lab assistant for brain preservation work”; “Some ACX readers wish me to advertise that they’ve started Nectome , a revolutionary new cryonics company”. It most often appears alongside 1790, ACX fan bulletin board Data Secrets Lox, AMac78.

Metadata

• Category: Organizations
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: January 31, 2022
• Last seen: March 16, 2026

Appears In

• Open Thread 209
• Open Thread 425

Related Pages

• • 1790 (1 shared issues)
• • ACX fan bulletin board Data Secrets Lox (1 shared issues)
• • AMac78 (1 shared issues)
• • Astralcodexten Com (1 shared issues)
• • Austin (1 shared issues)
• • Caral (1 shared issues)
• • Classifieds Forum (1 shared issues)
• • Genomic Prediction (1 shared issues)
• • I_Eat_Pork (1 shared issues)
• • Italian referendum (1 shared issues)
• • Jason Crawford (1 shared issues)
• • Lines Composed In A Fake Sequoia Forest (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Technology_Officer_of_the_United_States
• • https://nectome.com/
• • https://www.amazon.com/Closing-American-Mind-Education-Impoverished/dp/1451683200/ref=sr_1_1?crid=SAPRLAFUD8ML&keywords=Closing+of+the+American+Mind&qid=1680632698&s=books&sprefix=closing+of+the+american+mind%2Cstripbooks%2C221&sr=1-1
• • https://www.neonarrative.us/p/an-interview-with-scott-alexander
• • https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1867335298491068769

Source Context

Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 209

January 31, 2022 · Original source

- Nectome hiring a lab assistant for brain preservation work - ML engineer looking for work in AI alignment (and other ML engineers: 1, 2, 3) - Rob Miles needs volunteer writers for his AI alignment explainer project - Steve Hsu’s Genomic Prediction needs coders and data scientists - Rachel was my wedding photographer and is very good, hire her for your photos - Jason Crawford’s holding a Progress Studies conference in Austin March 4-6. - Lots of cool people to date - Or if dating isn’t your style, how about a nice calculus textbook?

Inline links: hiring a lab assistant, looking for work in AI alignment, 1, 2, 3, needs volunteer writers, needs coders and data scientists, hire her for your photos, Progress Studies conference, people to date, calculus textbook

Open Thread 425

March 16, 2026 · Original source

3: Some ACX readers wish me to advertise that they’ve started Nectome, a revolutionary new cryonics company (ie preserve your dead body intact in case the future learns how to revive people). They write:

Inline links: Nectome

More information here, and they have a pre-sale (at $100,000 per body) going on until the end of April.

Inline links: here, pre-sale

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• Open Thread 209
• Open Thread 425
• Organizations: N