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Publication priority on the quantified matched-compute sequential-against-parallel comparison is Sharma and Chopra's (arXiv:2511.02309, 4 November 2025), credited unreservedly and graded prior or concurrent (register row EVR-09, outcome partial), kept outside any priority or convergence total: their publication is prior, this programme's arrival at the comparison was separate and concurrent. The direction itself is older than both parties (Snell and colleagues, arXiv:2408.03314, 6 August 2024) and no precedence on it is claimed." }, "claim_count": 33, "earliest": "2024-12-08", "latest": "2026-09-29", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "dec-8-2024-manuscript-anchor", "title": "Manuscript essay establishing the embedded-correction alignment thesis (self-emailed anchor)", "paper_type": "manuscript", "first_published": "2024-12-08", "updated": "2026-07-02", "anchors": { "doi": null, "html": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "github": null, "zenodo": null }, "published_copies": { "lead": "The manuscripts themselves are published: on OSF", "doi": "https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/QASRK", "groups": [ { "intro": "the four of 8 December 2024", "files": [ { "href": "/research/reports/priority-manuscripts/2024-12-08-the-infinite-architects-intelligence-hyperspace-and-the-creation-of-everything.txt", "label": "The Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Hyperspace, and the Creation of Everything" }, { "href": "/research/reports/priority-manuscripts/2024-12-08-version-1-infinite-architects.txt", "label": "Version 1" }, { "href": "/research/reports/priority-manuscripts/2024-12-08-version-2-infinite-architects.txt", "label": "Version 2" }, { "href": "/research/reports/priority-manuscripts/2024-12-08-infinite-architects-v3-2-so-far.txt", "label": "Infinite Architects v3.2 so far" } ] }, { "intro": "the print manuscript of 30 April 2025", "files": [ { "href": "/research/reports/priority-manuscripts/2025-04-30-infinite-architects-print.pdf", "label": "PDF" } ] } ], "tail": "The emails are held privately for now." }, "canonical_concepts": [ "ARC Principle", "Eden Protocol", "recursive" ], "keywords": [ "8 December 2024", "priority anchor", "Gmail server timestamp", "SHA-256", "f0d1f38f", "embedded-correction alignment", "ARC Principle", "U = I x R", "HRIH", "Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis", "self-emailed manuscript", "AI control failure" ], "abstract": "Self-emailed manuscript package bearing a visible Gmail origination field of 02:45:18 UTC on 8 December 2024, with sender-DKIM and paired Google ARC mathematics verifying against keys captured at the signed selectors and no RFC 3161 trusted timestamp (Message-ID CAGPsKAnp-DLDBOeBAh4t9XsqJBKdoe07uORGF86meoSMFnin7w; 221,236 words across five attachments (four manuscript drafts totalling 221,236 words (five attachments) and the 31,881-word book draft v3.2); SHA-256 anchor prefix f0d1f38f). Places on the public evidentiary record the embedded-correction alignment thesis under its specific named framing, an early U = I x R capability-scaling formulation (V2 line 9), and the AI-control-failure passage (HRIH line 14005) ten days before Anthropic's alignment-faking paper. Existence-by-date anchor, not a cryptographic authorship claim.", "confirmation_events": [], "caveats": [ "Google-server timestamp establishes existence-by-date, not DKIM-authenticated authorship.", "The manuscript identifies structural directions, not specific RL-training or experimental mechanisms.", "Correct phrasing: both 'Google-server-timestamped' and 'cryptographically timestamped by Google's servers' are withdrawn. Say instead that the sent-side bytes are public and hash-verifiable and that a recipient-form export decodes to the same five attachment hashes, with sender-DKIM and paired Google ARC mathematics verifying against keys captured at the signed selectors. Not an RFC 3161 trusted timestamp." ] }, { "claim_id": "apr-30-2025-book-manuscript-anchor", "title": "Book manuscript expanding the Eden Protocol and first naming Embedded Correction and Meltdown Triggers (self-emailed anchor)", "paper_type": "manuscript", "first_published": "2025-04-30", "updated": "2026-07-02", "anchors": { "doi": null, "html": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/priority-claims.html", "pdf": "/research/reports/priority-manuscripts/2025-04-30-infinite-architects-print.pdf", "github": null, "zenodo": null }, "canonical_concepts": [ "Eden Protocol" ], "keywords": [ "30 April 2025", "priority anchor", "Gmail server timestamp", "SHA-256", "09f5b5e1", "Eden Protocol", "", "Babylon and Eden framing", "book manuscript" ], "abstract": "562-page book manuscript self-emailed on 30 April 2025 (SHA-256 anchor prefix 09f5b5e1). Expanded statement of the Eden Protocol, whose name is on the 8 December 2024 record, first appearance of the terminology (book lines 4345 to 4370), and the Babylon and Eden civilisational framing. Hardware framings of Eden Protocol, Caretaker Doping and Moral Genome tokens: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, at TRL 0 to 1 with no prototype; the full specification is published as Eden Engineering.", "confirmation_events": [], "caveats": [ "April 2025 postdates Anthropic's December 2024 alignment-faking paper by four months; any claim of predicting software-bypass mechanisms at April 2025 is convergent analysis, not prediction.", "Hardware ceiling absolute: two-sentence concept only, no enabling detail is drafted." ] }, { "claim_id": "infinite-architects-paperback", "title": "Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (paperback)", "paper_type": "book", "first_published": "2026-01-02", "updated": "2026-07-02", "anchors": { "doi": null, "html": "https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/#book", "github": null, "zenodo": null }, "canonical_concepts": [ "ARC Principle", "Eden Protocol" ], "keywords": [ "Infinite Architects", "book paperback", "ISBN 978-1806056200", "ISBN-10 1806056208", "ARC Principle", "Eden Protocol", "Chokepoint Mechanism", "HARI Treaty", "Three Ethical Loops", "37 concepts" ], "abstract": "First public book-length articulation of the embedded-correction alignment thesis, the ARC Principle (featured equation stated in the book as U = I x R^2, a fixed-exponent conjecture; the papers use U = I x R^alpha with the exponent open to measurement), the Eden Protocol, the semiconductor Chokepoint framing, the HARI Treaty proposal, the Three Ethical Loops, and the 37 named concepts. Paperback ISBN 978-1806056200 (ISBN-10 1806056208).", "confirmation_events": [], "caveats": [ "Balanced-ternary computing has earlier work (Setun 1958); priority is over the specific published framing under this title on this date, not over ternary logic or hardware architecture.", "Hardware ceiling absolute." ] }, { "claim_id": "infinite-architects-ebook", "title": "Infinite Architects (ebook edition)", "paper_type": "book", "first_published": "2026-01-06", "updated": "2026-07-02", "anchors": { "doi": null, "html": "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Architects-Intelligence-Recursion-Everything-ebook/dp/B0GDQZ7P21", "github": null, "zenodo": null }, "canonical_concepts": [ "ARC Principle", "Eden Protocol" ], "keywords": [ "Infinite Architects", "book ebook", "ISBN 979-8302196163", "Kindle ASIN B0GDQZ7P21" ], "abstract": "Public ebook edition of Infinite Architects, four days after the print edition. 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Every set of requirements begins with purpose. And every purpose, traced back far enough, arrives at the same question: what is this for? This paper articulates the philosophical foundations of the Eden Protocol -- the values, principles, and ethical commitments that underpin the engineering specification. 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That apparent effect vanished or turned round at v5, once identity masking, two-pass response laundering, bias-suppression instructions for evaluators and self-excluding cross-model scoring were in place, while a null-control family held flat. 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