Continuity Service Tiers

# Continuity Service Tiers **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Continuity Infrastructure / Preservation / Execution **Doc Type:** Canonical Operational Taxonomy **Maturity:** Proposed ## Definition **Continuity service tiers distinguish preservation from readiness and active execution without treating every stored state as a running person.** The tier describes an operational condition, not the moral rank of the subject. ## Canonical Tiers - **Cold continuity:** protected state, provenance, keys and interpreters are preserved for future verification or restoration, but no subject is assumed to be executing. - **Warm continuity:** state remains periodically validated, migration-ready and recoverable within a defined interval; limited services may maintain identity, notice and relational records. - **Hot continuity:** an executable continuant is actively scheduled with a declared compute, memory, latency, bandwidth and recovery envelope. Transition among tiers requires authority and disclosure. Moving a running subject to cold storage is suspension, not ordinary archival housekeeping. Activating an archive can instantiate a new process whose identity and standing require separate assessment. Restoring a warm or cold state must disclose the chosen state and missing interval under [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]]. Technical tiers are not [[wiki/Continuity Service Class|Continuity Service Classes]]. A service class is a legal-administrative bundle of entitlements; a tier is an operational state. An archive-only election may authorize cold preservation but no activation, while an active-continuation class may entitle a recognized subject to hot service under a measurable service level. ## Key Insight **Storage preserves the possibility of execution; it does not prove that a subject is present.** ## See Also [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]], [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]], [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]], [[wiki/Operational Continuity|Operational Continuity]]  ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution.  ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Key Relationships - **Continuity Service Tiers** is associated with cold continuity. - **Continuity Service Tiers** is associated with warm continuity. - **Continuity Service Tiers** is associated with hot continuity. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/AI Factory|AI Factory]] is connected in the corpus with **Continuity Service Tiers**. Cold/warm/hot service tiers map onto different compute/storage commitments. - [[wiki/CoreWeave|CoreWeave]] is connected in the corpus with **Continuity Service Tiers**. Inference capacity can operationalize differential activation/latency tiers. ### Technology and research relationships - [[wiki/S-LoRA|S-LoRA]] converges technically with **Continuity Service Tiers**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Service Tiers** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Service Tiers** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Service Tiers** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Service Tiers** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Service Tiers** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **Host-infrastructure crosswalk** provides the narrative context for **Continuity Service Tiers**: The remaining cross-links make the boundary conditions explicit.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0052 — `classifies` → `cold continuity`** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki. - **HR-0053 — `classifies` → `warm continuity`** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki. - **HR-0054 — `classifies` → `hot continuity`** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki. - **HR-0513 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Tiers.md`. - **HR-0514 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Tiers.md`. - **HR-0515 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Tiers.md`. - **HR-0516 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Tiers.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0389 — [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Access Inequality.md`. - **HR-0738 — [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Long-Term Digital Preservation.md`. - **HR-0790 — [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Minimum Viable Continuity.md`. - **HR-1377 — [[wiki/AI Factory|AI Factory]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Cold/warm/hot service tiers map onto different compute/storage commitments. - **HR-1387 — [[wiki/CoreWeave|CoreWeave]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Inference capacity can operationalize differential activation/latency tiers. - **HR-1580 — [[wiki/S-LoRA|S-LoRA]] `technical_convergence_with` → this entry** — **ARCHITECTURAL ANALOGY**; evidence `WEB_SLORA`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Cheap dormant specialization + active GPU residency is a useful resource-allocation analogue, not evidence of digital persons.