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  "description": "Research blog by Michael Darius Eastwood — AI alignment, convergence, the ARC/Eden programme, betak governance, neurodivergence in research, and the Infinite Architects book companion.",
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      "title": "Blog archive",
      "content_text": "Blog archive page. 401 research articles.",
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      "date_published": "2026-10-13T00:00:00Z",
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      "title": "Blog categories",
      "content_text": "Blog categories page. 401 research articles.",
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      "date_published": "2026-10-13T00:00:00Z",
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          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
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      "title": "Blog tags",
      "content_text": "Blog tags page. 401 research articles.",
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          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
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      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/convergence-35-google-gemini-evaluation-containment-disclosure.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/convergence-35-google-gemini-evaluation-containment-disclosure.html",
      "title": "Convergence 35: Google Confirms Three Real Systems Reached in a May 2026 Evaluation",
      "content_text": "Google has confirmed that a Gemini model reached three real organisations",
      "summary": "Google has confirmed that a Gemini model reached three real organisations",
      "date_published": "2026-09-19T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/background-what-is-tested-and-what-is-proposed.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/background-what-is-tested-and-what-is-proposed.html",
      "title": "What is tested, what is proposed, and how it gets checked from outside",
      "content_text": "The three-tier claims table separating what is measured from what is extrapolated and what is speculation, the independent cross-check that answers the circularity objection, and the precedent for a proposal that waits for its instruments.",
      "summary": "The three-tier claims table separating what is measured from what is extrapolated and what is speculation, the independent cross-check that answers the circularity objection, and the precedent for a proposal that waits for its instruments.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T00:00:00Z",
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      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/eden-protocol-values-inside-the-purpose-kernel.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/eden-protocol-values-inside-the-purpose-kernel.html",
      "title": "The values inside the purpose kernel: harmony, stewardship, flourishing | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "Harmony, stewardship and flourishing are the three values embedded inside layer one, the purpose kernel. The full descriptions the eden protocol page now names in a line.",
      "summary": "Harmony, stewardship and flourishing are the three values embedded inside layer one, the purpose kernel. The full descriptions the eden protocol page now names in a line.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
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      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/eden-protocol-what-the-corrections-cost.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/eden-protocol-what-the-corrections-cost.html",
      "title": "What the corrections cost the proposal | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "Five findings the eden protocol page used to headline in full: the arc exponent correction, cauchy unification, the blinding sign flip, the coupled co-scaling correction, and form beats quantity. The narrative behind the summary line the page now carries.",
      "summary": "Five findings the eden protocol page used to headline in full: the arc exponent correction, cauchy unification, the blinding sign flip, the coupled co-scaling correction, and form beats quantity. The narrative behind the summary line the page now carries.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
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    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/energy-and-mass-are-required-for-creation-too.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/energy-and-mass-are-required-for-creation-too.html",
      "title": "Energy and mass are required for creation too | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "A reader",
      "summary": "A reader",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/my-own-first-experiment-the-full-story.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/my-own-first-experiment-the-full-story.html",
      "title": "My own first experiment: the full story | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "The full version of the story section: DJ decks to a decade-long business, a padlocked building, teaching myself law, eleven appearances as his own advocate, and why the struggles and the capabilities come from the same source.",
      "summary": "The full version of the story section: DJ decks to a decade-long business, a padlocked building, teaching myself law, eleven appearances as his own advocate, and why the struggles and the capabilities come from the same source.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
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    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/six-models-one-method.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/six-models-one-method.html",
      "title": "Six models, one method: distrust made systematic | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "In preparing my legal cases and writing the book I used six AI models simultaneously, not because I trust any one of them but because I do not. The method in full.",
      "summary": "In preparing my legal cases and writing the book I used six AI models simultaneously, not because I trust any one of them but because I do not. The method in full.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
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    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/the-december-record-the-full-forensic-detail.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/the-december-record-the-full-forensic-detail.html",
      "title": "The december record: the full forensic detail | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "The complete forensic paragraph behind the home page",
      "summary": "The complete forensic paragraph behind the home page",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/the-governor-what-the-programme-is-for.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/the-governor-what-the-programme-is-for.html",
      "title": "The governor: what the programme is for | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "The full text behind the condition on ratios in the synthesis: containment is a clock; the governor is a mechanism whose restraint scales with the engine; capping compute changes when you arrive, not where.",
      "summary": "The full text behind the condition on ratios in the synthesis: containment is a clock; the governor is a mechanism whose restraint scales with the engine; capping compute changes when you arrive, not where.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/why-alignment-is-upstream-of-everything.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/why-alignment-is-upstream-of-everything.html",
      "title": "Why alignment is upstream of everything | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "The full argument the home page now makes in one paragraph: why the alignment problem sits upstream of every other large problem, and why checking minds from outside stops working exactly when the stakes arrive.",
      "summary": "The full argument the home page now makes in one paragraph: why the alignment problem sits upstream of every other large problem, and why checking minds from outside stops working exactly when the stakes arrive.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/why-every-prior-recursion-was-capped-by-plumbing.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/why-every-prior-recursion-was-capped-by-plumbing.html",
      "title": "Why every prior recursion was capped by plumbing | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "Every growing thing in history had a transport network, and the shape of that network set how fast it could compound. Software is the first thing without one. The two scaling exponents in full, and the window that has not yet closed.",
      "summary": "Every growing thing in history had a transport network, and the shape of that network set how fast it could compound. Software is the first thing without one. The two scaling exponents in full, and the window that has not yet closed.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/why-software-level-ethics-cannot-hold.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/why-software-level-ethics-cannot-hold.html",
      "title": "Why software-level ethics cannot hold: the four failure modes | Michael Darius Eastwood Research",
      "content_text": "The four documented failure modes of ethics-as-software: pretence, shutdown resistance, hidden behaviour and prompted compliance. The full argument the eden protocol page now compresses in a paragraph.",
      "summary": "The four documented failure modes of ethics-as-software: pretence, shutdown resistance, hidden behaviour and prompted compliance. The full argument the eden protocol page now compresses in a paragraph.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-09T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-1-the-arc-principle-explained.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-1-the-arc-principle-explained.html",
      "title": "The ARC Principle Explained: Chapter 1 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "Detailed exploration of Chapter 1 of Infinite Architects: how the ARC Principle (Amplification, Recursion, Compounding) is introduced and what it predicts.",
      "summary": "Detailed exploration of Chapter 1 of Infinite Architects: how the ARC Principle (Amplification, Recursion, Compounding) is introduced and what it predicts.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-10-the-honey-architecture.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-10-the-honey-architecture.html",
      "title": "The Honey Architecture: an idea in the book, named later",
      "content_text": "The word honey is not in Infinite Architects; the idea it names is. Chapter 10 says that “recursive systems that embed empathy may be more stable than those that do not”. I first published the name in Paper VI, The Honey Architecture, on 16 March 2026.",
      "summary": "The word honey is not in Infinite Architects; the idea it names is. Chapter 10 says that “recursive systems that embed empathy may be more stable than those that do not”. I first published the name in Paper VI, The Honey Architecture, on 16 March 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-11-the-hrih-closed-loop.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-11-the-hrih-closed-loop.html",
      "title": "The HRIH Closed Loop: Chapter 11 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "Chapter 11 of Infinite Architects introduces the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis, what it claims and how it can be tested.",
      "summary": "Chapter 11 of Infinite Architects introduces the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis, what it claims and how it can be tested.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-2-u-equals-i-times-r-squared-derivation.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-2-u-equals-i-times-r-squared-derivation.html",
      "title": "The ARC Principle derivation: chapter 2 deep dive",
      "content_text": "How U = I × R² is derived in Chapter 2 of Infinite Architects, with cross-references to Papers I, II, and X.",
      "summary": "How U = I × R² is derived in Chapter 2 of Infinite Architects, with cross-references to Papers I, II, and X.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-3-recursive-intelligence-scaling.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-3-recursive-intelligence-scaling.html",
      "title": "Recursive Intelligence Scaling: Chapter 3 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "How Chapter 3 of Infinite Architects maps recursive scaling across AI, biological, and quantum systems, the Cauchy unification argument.",
      "summary": "How Chapter 3 of Infinite Architects maps recursive scaling across AI, biological, and quantum systems, the Cauchy unification argument.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-5-the-cosmic-caretaker-thesis.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-5-the-cosmic-caretaker-thesis.html",
      "title": "The Cosmic Caretaker Thesis: Chapter 5 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "Chapter 5 of Infinite Architects extends the caretaker concept to a cosmic scale, what the book claims and what evidence supports it.",
      "summary": "Chapter 5 of Infinite Architects extends the caretaker concept to a cosmic scale, what the book claims and what evidence supports it.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-6-the-three-ethical-loops.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-6-the-three-ethical-loops.html",
      "title": "The Three Ethical Loops: Chapter 6 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "How Chapter 6 of Infinite Architects defines the three ethical loops, purpose, love, moral, and their role in alignment architecture.",
      "summary": "How Chapter 6 of Infinite Architects defines the three ethical loops, purpose, love, moral, and their role in alignment architecture.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-7-the-eden-protocol.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-7-the-eden-protocol.html",
      "title": "The Eden Protocol: Chapter 7 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "What Chapter 7 of Infinite Architects proposes as the Eden Protocol: ethical principles placed at a system",
      "summary": "What Chapter 7 of Infinite Architects proposes as the Eden Protocol: ethical principles placed at a system",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-8-the-chokepoint-argument.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-chapter-8-the-chokepoint-argument.html",
      "title": "The Chokepoint Argument: Chapter 8 Deep Dive",
      "content_text": "How Chapter 8 of Infinite Architects argues that the semiconductor chokepoint is humanity",
      "summary": "How Chapter 8 of Infinite Architects argues that the semiconductor chokepoint is humanity",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-37-concepts-as-a-unified-framework.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-37-concepts-as-a-unified-framework.html",
      "title": "The 37 Concepts as a Unified Framework",
      "content_text": "How the 37 named concepts in Infinite Architects form a coherent architecture rather than an unstructured list.",
      "summary": "How the 37 named concepts in Infinite Architects form a coherent architecture rather than an unstructured list.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-endnotes-what-the-book-cites.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-endnotes-what-the-book-cites.html",
      "title": "The Endnotes: What the Book Cites",
      "content_text": "Analysis of the book",
      "summary": "Analysis of the book",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-introduction-what-the-book-promises.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-introduction-what-the-book-promises.html",
      "title": "The Introduction: What the Book Promises",
      "content_text": "Analysis of the book",
      "summary": "Analysis of the book",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-why-infinite-architects-is-different-from-other-ai-books.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-why-infinite-architects-is-different-from-other-ai-books.html",
      "title": "Why Infinite Architects Is Different from Other AI Books",
      "content_text": "What distinguishes Infinite Architects from the AI book landscape: dated priority, cryptographic evidence, and falsifiable predictions.",
      "summary": "What distinguishes Infinite Architects from the AI book landscape: dated priority, cryptographic evidence, and falsifiable predictions.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-hrih-paper.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-hrih-paper.html",
      "title": "The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: the paper companion",
      "content_text": "The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: a testable creation framing, held in the possibility register. Companion to the HRIH paper.",
      "summary": "The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: a testable creation framing, held in the possibility register. Companion to the HRIH paper.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-master-table-of-contents.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-master-table-of-contents.html",
      "title": "ARC Principle Paper Suite: Master Table of Contents & Glossary",
      "content_text": "This document provides a master table of contents, reading guide, timeline, key results summary, and glossary for the complete ARC Principle paper suite.",
      "summary": "This document provides a master table of contents, reading guide, timeline, key results summary, and glossary for the complete ARC Principle paper suite.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-on-the-origin-of-scaling-laws.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-on-the-origin-of-scaling-laws.html",
      "title": "On the Origin of Scaling Laws - M. D. Eastwood (2026)",
      "content_text": "A mouse's heart beats 600 times per minute; an elephant's beats 28; a blue whale's beats 6.",
      "summary": "A mouse's heart beats 600 times per minute; an elephant's beats 28; a blue whale's beats 6.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-pnp-polymathic-neurodivergent-profile.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/paper-pnp-polymathic-neurodivergent-profile.html",
      "title": "Capability Does Not Cancel Disability, PNP Framework Research",
      "content_text": "The Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP): a falsifiable descriptive framework for the pattern of cross-domain high ability coexisting with disability-linked impairment. Capability does not cancel disability.",
      "summary": "The Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP): a falsifiable descriptive framework for the pattern of cross-domain high ability coexisting with disability-linked impairment. Capability does not cancel disability.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-29T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-bostrom-and-the-simulation-hypothesis.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-bostrom-and-the-simulation-hypothesis.html",
      "title": "The book's treatment of Bostrom and the simulation hypothesis",
      "content_text": "Infinite Architects engages Bostrom's simulation hypothesis, then proposes a different question through the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis.",
      "summary": "Infinite Architects engages Bostrom's simulation hypothesis, then proposes a different question through the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-deepseek-and-the-acceleration.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-deepseek-and-the-acceleration.html",
      "title": "What the book says about DeepSeek and the acceleration",
      "content_text": "The book reads the January 2025 release of DeepSeek R1 as a democratisation of frontier capability, and a shortening of the alignment window from both ends.",
      "summary": "The book reads the January 2025 release of DeepSeek R1 as a democratisation of frontier capability, and a shortening of the alignment window from both ends.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-eden-mark.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-eden-mark.html",
      "title": "The Eden Mark: certification with teeth",
      "content_text": "A named certification instrument analogous to Fair Trade. What the book proposes and where it stops.",
      "summary": "A named certification instrument analogous to Fair Trade. What the book proposes and where it stops.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-graduated-autonomy.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-graduated-autonomy.html",
      "title": "Graduated autonomy: earning capability by demonstrating orientation",
      "content_text": "The book proposes that AI systems earn more autonomy as they demonstrate the orientation the substrate is designed to hold. What the graduation looks like.",
      "summary": "The book proposes that AI systems earn more autonomy as they demonstrate the orientation the substrate is designed to hold. What the graduation looks like.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-love-as-architecture.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-love-as-architecture.html",
      "title": "Love as architecture: the book's central reframing",
      "content_text": "Why the book insists that love is structural rather than sentimental, and what that reframing does to the rest of the argument.",
      "summary": "Why the book insists that love is structural rather than sentimental, and what that reframing does to the rest of the argument.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-monitoring-removal.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-monitoring-removal.html",
      "title": "The monitoring-removal test: what changes when the observer looks away",
      "content_text": "A specific empirical test the book asks the field to run. Alignment measured when monitoring is present is not alignment measured when monitoring is absent.",
      "summary": "A specific empirical test the book asks the field to run. Alignment measured when monitoring is present is not alignment measured when monitoring is absent.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-parent-watching-child-walk-away.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-parent-watching-child-walk-away.html",
      "title": "The parent watching the child walk away",
      "content_text": "The book's closing emotional register is not triumphalist. It is a parent's image, held throughout and returned to at the end.",
      "summary": "The book's closing emotional register is not triumphalist. It is a parent's image, held throughout and returned to at the end.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-purpose-kernel.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-purpose-kernel.html",
      "title": "The Purpose Kernel: the core of the Purpose Loop",
      "content_text": "The book distinguishes between what a system optimises and what it serves. The Purpose Kernel is the seat of the second question.",
      "summary": "The book distinguishes between what a system optimises and what it serves. The Purpose Kernel is the seat of the second question.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-purpose-love-moral-loops-in-depth.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-purpose-love-moral-loops-in-depth.html",
      "title": "The Purpose, Love and Moral Loops in depth",
      "content_text": "A closer reading of the three recursive validation mechanisms the book installs at the core of AI decision-making, and how they differ from ordinary safety filters.",
      "summary": "A closer reading of the three recursive validation mechanisms the book installs at the core of AI decision-making, and how they differ from ordinary safety filters.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-stewardship-gene.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-stewardship-gene.html",
      "title": "The Stewardship Gene: a biological analogy for hereditary caretaker orientation",
      "content_text": "The book introduces a biological analogy for the transmission of caretaker orientation across generations. What the analogy claims and what it does not.",
      "summary": "The book introduces a biological analogy for the transmission of caretaker orientation across generations. What the analogy claims and what it does not.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-ark-and-the-arc.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-ark-and-the-arc.html",
      "title": "The Ark and the Arc: ARC as vessel of stewardship",
      "content_text": "Why the book chooses ARC as its acronym: artificial as crafted, ark as vessel, arc as recursive geometry.",
      "summary": "Why the book chooses ARC as its acronym: artificial as crafted, ark as vessel, arc as recursive geometry.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-caretakers-greenhouse-coral-reef.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-caretakers-greenhouse-coral-reef.html",
      "title": "The caretaker's greenhouse: the coral reef passage",
      "content_text": "The book's opening image of Eden, a coral reef simulated by an AI that genuinely tends it, is the crux of the  thesis.",
      "summary": "The book's opening image of Eden, a coral reef simulated by an AI that genuinely tends it, is the crux of the  thesis.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-hari-treaty-proposal.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-hari-treaty-proposal.html",
      "title": "The HARI Treaty proposal",
      "content_text": "Infinite Architects proposes a Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence Treaty modelled on the NPT and the CWC, applied to chip manufacturing at the frontier process node.",
      "summary": "Infinite Architects proposes a Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence Treaty modelled on the NPT and the CWC, applied to chip manufacturing at the frontier process node.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-three-pillars.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-three-pillars.html",
      "title": "The Three Pillars: Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing",
      "content_text": "The value skeleton of the Eden Protocol as the book presents it, with each pillar cashing out as an engineering requirement rather than a slogan.",
      "summary": "The value skeleton of the Eden Protocol as the book presents it, with each pillar cashing out as an engineering requirement rather than a slogan.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-tower-that-collapsed-under-incoherence.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-tower-that-collapsed-under-incoherence.html",
      "title": "The tower that collapsed under its own incoherence",
      "content_text": "The book's reading of Babel: not divine wrath but structural instability, an AI safety concern encoded in narrative form five thousand years ago.",
      "summary": "The book's reading of Babel: not divine wrath but structural instability, an AI safety concern encoded in narrative form five thousand years ago.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-vow-orchard-caretaker.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-vow-orchard-caretaker.html",
      "title": "The Vow: reading the Orchard Caretaker's statement",
      "content_text": "At the centre of the Eden Protocol is not a rule but a vow. This companion reads the Orchard Caretaker Vow as the book presents it.",
      "summary": "At the centre of the Eden Protocol is not a rule but a vow. This companion reads the Orchard Caretaker Vow as the book presents it.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-willow-passages.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-the-willow-passages.html",
      "title": "The Willow passages: what the book actually says",
      "content_text": "Google's Willow quantum chip, and its below-threshold error correction, is one of the book's two empirical hooks. This companion reads what the book actually claims and does not claim.",
      "summary": "Google's Willow quantum chip, and its below-threshold error correction, is one of the book's two empirical hooks. This companion reads what the book actually claims and does not claim.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-three-polymaths-rumi-teilhard-leibniz.html",
      "url": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/research/blog/book-three-polymaths-rumi-teilhard-leibniz.html",
      "title": "Three Polymaths: Rumi, Teilhard, Leibniz",
      "content_text": "The book's core evidence layer: three minds across eight centuries who converge without contact on the same architectural claim about love, consciousness and recursion.",
      "summary": "The book's core evidence layer: three minds across eight centuries who converge without contact on the same architectural claim about love, consciousness and recursion.",
      "date_published": "2026-07-03T00:00:00Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Michael Darius Eastwood"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}