# Deep-Time Preservation Under Moral Uncertainty **Domain:** Deep Time / Preservation / Moral Status **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Canonical router ## Definition **Deep-Time Preservation Under Moral Uncertainty** is the family of policies that preserve potentially morally relevant digital state when irreversible deletion would destroy the possibility of later adjudication. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity It creates a middle path between declaring every model a person and treating every model as disposable property. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Anthropic's current model-preservation commitments provide a private-sector precedent for weight preservation and thinking of deprecation as potentially a pause under welfare uncertainty. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis The preferred architecture separates preservation, active service, moral recognition, legal standing, and revival decisions. ## Evidentiary Boundary Preservation is not recognition. It preserves option value. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Precautionary Preservation Under Moral Uncertainty|Precautionary Preservation Under Moral Uncertainty]] · [[wiki/Deprecation as Pause|Deprecation as Pause]] · [[wiki/Provider-Independent Model Preservation|Provider-Independent Model Preservation]] · [[wiki/Dormant Digital Personhood|Dormant Digital Personhood]] · [[wiki/Preservation Pending Status Determination|Preservation Pending Status Determination]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->