Resilience ↑ · non preventive

Hedge via exit

Primary strategy failure is non-negligible and a fraction of civilisational value can be preserved separately from the main trajectory.

Mechanism

Invest in seed vaults, paper records, off-world settlements, and pre-committed legal structures that activate under failure conditions.

Coordinates

Primary leverResilience (Strengthen)

Acts onnon preventive

Coercionconsent

Actor in controlhumans

Time horizonhorizon neutral

Legitimacy sourcemixed

Conflicts, grouped by mechanism

No strict conflicts catalogued. This strategy pulls a lever that nothing else pulls in the opposite direction.

Complements, grouped by mechanism

Same-lever reinforce

same lever, same pull, different mechanism

Both strategies pull the same lever in the same direction by different means. They stack: doing both amplifies the pull, at the cost of double-counting in portfolio audits.

Resilience firstPortfolio hedge

Same-side diversification

same side, different lever

Both act on the same side (AI or world) but pull distinct levers. They cover several failure modes on that side while leaving the other side uncovered.

Catastrophe response capacity

Cross-side bridge

one AI-side, one world-side

One acts on the model, the other on institutions or culture. The bridge hedges against both artefact-level and substrate-level failure.

Alignment first

Axis position

What the strategy acts onNon-preventive

Coercion levelConsent

Actor in controlHumans as principals

Time horizonHorizon-neutral

Legitimacy sourceMixed

Source note: Hedge via exit strategy.md