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Startup Pitches Brainless Human Clones for Immortality Insurance

R3 Bio proposes cloned backup bodies without brains for wealthy clientele seeking biological redundancy.

ARWF dimensions
Existential criticality
Does the threat involve irreversible systemic failure?
Probability vectoring
Theoretical, or active proof of concept?
Timeline imminence
How close to current deployment?
Mitigation gap
Identified solution, or currently unaligned?
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