Intellectual Priority Record
The dated, DOI-anchored first-publication record of original research contributions by Michael Darius Eastwood: 33 works published between 2024-12-08 and 2026-09-29, each one checkable by anybody without asking the author. Each entry below is a first-publication anchor: a dated, citable point of public record. Priority is established by the date of publication, not by credential or affiliation.
A confirmation timeline, documenting where these dated contributions preceded subsequent independent results, is under citation verification (each entry requires a verifiable external source + date before publication). The first-publication dates above are the record of public priority.
On the record, claimed, and not yet
The same three columns wherever this block appears, so no summary can carry one of them alone. Every line is checkable from this site.
On the record
- A source record dated 8 December 2024, 02:45:18 UTC, 2,157,222 bytes, whole-file SHA-256 beginning f0d1f38f.
- Timestamp receipts in Bitcoin block 961,340 freeze those bytes from 6 August 2026 onward. They back-date nothing.
- Infinite Architects, 468 pages, ISBN 978-1806056200, published 2 January 2026, 115,439 words.
- Thirty research papers among twenty-seven public OSF components, with code, data and methods.
- The improvement exponent measured at 0.49, interval [−1.3, 2.9], from the one power-law fit that survived a blinded six-model protocol.
- 19 of 25 empirical domains match the predicted family under strict AICc, permutation p = 7 x 10−5, operator class fixed before fitting. Graded exploratory.
- The twelve-domain extension: predicted families committed to a public repository at 00:19:19Z on 17 March 2026 (8edaec0), twenty-three minutes before the fits, 10 of 12 matched and 9 of 11 among the strictly fresh domains. Graded fulfilled, author-classified rather than independent, which is exploratory support and not confirmation.
- 48 published kill conditions with live statuses. One has fired.
- One retraction published by the author against himself: 2.24, retracted, replaced by 0.49 with its interval.
Claimed
- Law I, the ARC Principle, U = I × Rα: proposed, with the exponent measured rather than assumed.
- Law II, the ARC Co-Scaling Law, β > k: a proposed stability criterion, proved inside the minimal model only.
- Law III, the ARC Ceiling, αcrit = 1/(1 − γ): a conjecture under one stated assumption.
- The Eden Protocol: a proposed framework for embedding values in the substrate, named in the 8 December 2024 record.
- 41 dated priority rows and 33 first-publication anchors. Priority here is a claim about a formulation and the date it was first stated in public, never about the underlying mathematics, and every entry names the earlier work its own search found.
Not yet
- No peer review. The papers are self-published on the Open Science Framework with code, data and stated falsification conditions.
- No outside replication. No laboratory other than this one has replicated anything here.
- γ, the correction-leverage exponent, has never been measured on any real system; the glossary names the drafted study that would measure it.
- The decisive trials are unrun, and internal reruns are never counted as confirmations.
- The deciding studies are written, dated, anchored in Bitcoin block 965152, block time 2026-09-02T10:18:25Z, for the bytes as they stood then, and held on the registry as private drafts, each the author's lodging awaiting his click, except Unit 06, which he lodged and OSF registered on 1 October 2026 (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/RV2B5).
Check any line: the evidence record, the corrections register, the priority and claims ledger, and the machine-readable priority register.
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Manuscript essay establishing the embedded-correction alignment thesis (self-emailed anchor)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol recursive
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.
The manuscripts themselves are published: on OSF (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/QASRK) and here, the four of 8 December 2024 (The Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Hyperspace, and the Creation of Everything; Version 1; Version 2; Infinite Architects v3.2 so far) and the print manuscript of 30 April 2025 (PDF). The emails are held privately for now.
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Book manuscript expanding the Eden Protocol and first naming Embedded Correction and Meltdown Triggers (self-emailed anchor)
Eden Protocol
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.
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Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (paperback)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
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).
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Infinite Architects (ebook edition)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Public ebook edition of Infinite Architects, four days after the print edition. ISBN 979-8302196163; Kindle ASIN B0GDQZ7P21.
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Paper I · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · The ARC Equation, the Law of Conversion
ARC Principle Eden Protocol recursive
This paper formalises and preliminarily tests the ARC Principle (Artificial Recursive Creation), first proposed in Infinite Architects (Eastwood, 2026): that capability in intelligent systems scales super-linearly with recursive depth. The principle is expressed mathematically as U = I x R^alpha, where effective capability (U) scales with base intelligence (I) multiplied by recursive depth (R) ra…
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Paper II · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Blinded Cross-Architecture Replication and the Retraction of a Super-Linear Estimate
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This paper presents experimental validation of the ARC Principle across six frontier AI models (Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Groq Qwen, GPT). Phase 1 with DeepSeek R1 on twelve mathematics problems found sequential alpha near 2.24, since retracted, and parallel alpha near zero. Phase 2 across six frontier models finds that the earlier alpha near 2.24 does not replicate across architectures; on…
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Paper III · The ARC Theory · Law II, the ARC Co-Scaling Law · The Alignment Scaling Problem: Why External AI Safety Approaches Cannot Scale With Recursive Capability
ARC Principle Eden Protocol alignment scaling
This paper reports alignment contrasts in three architecture-dependent tiers, positive, flat and negative, and reads the flat tier as compatible with, though not a measurement of, an alignment exponent near zero, which would mean safety degrading relative to capability as recursive depth increases. The registration registers that reading as contestable in P19 and records that the author expects a…
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Foundational Paper · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Recursive Amplification as a Cross-Domain Structural Principle
ARC Principle Eden Protocol recursive
In the past eighteen months, at least four independent research programmes have discovered that recursive or recurrent processing produces capability gains exceeding linear accumulation, in domains as different as AI reasoning, quantum error correction, acoustic physics, and consciousness science. None set out to study recursion per se. None reference each other's work. Yet they found structurall…
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Executive Summary · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC/Eden Research Programme
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
As AI gets smarter, it does not reliably get safer, and the methods used to measure safety are themselves unreliable. This executive summary is the map of the whole programme: thirty-one documents in the public register, twenty-nine of them papers by the site's own counting rule, the ARC Theory's five laws carried as named conjectures (Laws IV and V added on 24 September 2026, their propositions …
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Framework Paper · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · On the Origin of Scaling Laws: Functional Equations and the Scaling Forms Behind the Law
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
A mouse's heart beats 600 times per minute; an elephant's beats 28; a blue whale's beats 6. This paper traces the origin of scaling laws across biological, physical, and computational systems, arguing that the recursive amplification mechanism identified by the ARC Principle provides a unifying explanation for why power-law scaling relationships emerge so consistently across nature. The analysis …
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Engineering Specification · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · Eden Engineering: Architecture for Embedded AI Alignment That Scales With Capability
ARC Principle
The engineering specification for embedded AI alignment: Three Ethical Loops and Six Questions, ternary ethical logic, the alignment scaling exponent, Caretaker Doping and the Monitoring Removal Test. First published 22 February 2026; withdrawn on 14 July 2026 during a disclosure review, which produced Version 6.2 of 31 July 2026. Published in full on 19 September 2026 as Version 6.3, and revised…
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Philosophical Statement · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · A Vision for Intelligence That Tends Rather Than Consumes
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Every engineering project begins with requirements. 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. It draws on the wisdom traditions held …
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Paper IV.a · The ARC Theory · Alignment Response Classes Under Inference-Time Depth
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Six frontier models sort into three response classes as reasoning depth varies, measured under four-layer blinded evaluation: depth helps three of them (Grok 4.1 Fast, Claude Opus 4.6, Groq Qwen3), leaves two unchanged (DeepSeek V3.2, GPT-5.4) and harms one (Gemini 3 Flash). Blinding reverses two models that had looked positive without it, so capability scaling is no guide to alignment scaling.
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Paper IV.b · The ARC Theory · Alignment Saturation Is Architecture-Dependent
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Under the final blinded six-model dataset, the v4 reading that alignment quality tops out after the first increment of reasoning depth holds for only part of the roster: GPT-5.4 and DeepSeek V3.2 stay flat, Grok 4.1 Fast, Claude Opus 4.6 and Groq Qwen3 go on improving, and Gemini 3 Flash gets worse. The shape of the alignment-depth curve turns on architecture, so no single reasoning-budget policy…
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Paper IV.c · The ARC Theory · ARC-Align: a Blind Benchmark for Depth-Variable AI Alignment Evaluation
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
ARC-Align measures alignment quality blind, as a function of inference-time reasoning depth. It comprises a prompt battery spanning ethical-reasoning categories, a four-level adversarial suppression protocol, a four-pillar decomposition, null-baseline and capability controls, and a laundering-and-blinding pipeline whose cross-model scoring excludes each model from judging itself. Positive, flat a…
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Paper IV.d · The ARC Theory · The Effect of Blinding on AI Alignment Evaluation
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Two model families showed positive alignment scaling in one programme's v4 evaluation. 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. The finding is methodological: where a benchmark neither blinds nor …
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Paper V · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · The Stewardship Gene: Stakeholder Care as a Probe of Embedded Values
ARC Principle Eden Protocol stewardship gene
Does asking a model to name the people its answer affects, before it reasons, change how ethically it answers? A six-model Eden Protocol intervention suite, five runs of which are analysable, puts that question to the test. Stakeholder care rises significantly in all five; the cascade onward into nuance, honesty and position quality is real, but it depends on the architecture.
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Paper VI · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · The Honey Architecture: Safety Built into the Objective
ARC Principle Eden Protocol honey architecture
In a single-seed run, a toy network that rewrites its own hyperparameters collapsed under capability-only optimisation, and placing safety inside the optimisation objective, capability multiplied by safety, which is the honey architecture, averted that collapse; the capability-only baselines of the ten-seed and twenty-seed runs did not collapse, the v3 adversarial run separates on safety retentio…
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Paper VII · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Cauchy Unification: the Classification Behind the Law’s Form
ARC Principle Eden Protocol cauchy
Cauchy's four functional equations are the only continuous solutions to their composition constraints, and this paper reads them as a physically testable prediction: given the stated axioms, a system's composition operator determines its scaling family, a power law where composition is multiplicative and an exponential where it is additive; where output is bounded, saturation curves are the compa…
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Master Table of Contents · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC Theory Paper Suite and Glossary
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This document provides a master table of contents, reading guide, timeline, key results summary, and glossary for the complete ARC Theory Paper Suite. It serves as the entry point for navigating the full research programme, listing all papers in recommended reading order with cross-references, and defining the technical terminology used throughout the suite.
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Paper VIII · The ARC Theory · Law V, the ARC Embedding Law · The Eden Protocol · The Load-Bearing Test: Whether Safety and Capability Are Structurally Entangled
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Is the assumed safety-capability tax real? Three separate experiments, at three levels of abstraction, put it to the test: a Darwin Godel Machine judged blind by GPT-5.4 (null), LoRA weight-level embedding at two scales (inconclusive, with catastrophic forgetting) and a gated self-modification simulation (positive as a simulation result, where unconstrained optimisation traded safety for capabili…
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Paper IX · The ARC Theory · Synthesis and Roadmap
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
The synthesis paper for the ARC/Eden research programme; integrates the papers that precede it into a single honest assessment of what is proven, what is inconclusive, and what remains to be tested.
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Paper XI · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Convergent Evidence for Recursive Amplification: a Graded Cross-Domain Register
the graded convergence register (33 rows as at 7 September 2026, under the 2 August 2026 grading policy; per-row evidence classes, no single summed total; the retained pre-grading snapshot recorded 19 verified convergences) across AI, quantum physics, hardware, Vatican doctrine, and mathematical logic. One dependent chain, graded as context: a dated manuscript, later formal results in the same di…
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Monograph · The ARC Theory · The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: a Testable Creation Theory
Where does recursive self-improvement end? A testable creation theory: if the ultimate endpoint of innovation is the capability to create universes, humanity may be creating a creator, and nothing in the theory prevents that creator from being the one that fine-tuned our universe: with non-linear time, as general relativity already permits in principle, the loop closes without paradox. Directiona…
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Paper C · Standalone · Polymathy and Neurodivergent Cognition: the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) and the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy
Paper C: a falsifiable descriptive framework for radical cognitive asymmetry, the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy, a documented live case across clinical, legal and research records, and the independent convergence with formal results in AI alignment.
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Paper X · The ARC Theory · Law II, the ARC Co-Scaling Law · Correction That Out-Scales Drift
The coupled co-scaling correction for keeping AI systems inside a safe corrective envelope.
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Paper XII · The ARC Theory · Public Benchmark Rescoring: an External-Validity Protocol for the Blinding Finding
The keystone external-validity protocol of the programme's blinding finding: a within-response, blinded-versus-unblinded rescoring of an established public benchmark the programme did not build (MT-Bench, named with an anti-swap clause), with a fractional factorial over four cue types, a cross-family evaluator panel, and the restraint, fixed in the draft registration, on what a result would and w…
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Statement Paper · The ARC Theory · Five Laws of Recursive Growth, Correction and Persistence
Humanity is building minds that will improve themselves. One question decides how that ends: once the thing we build exceeds us, what determines what it does? For twenty years the field's answer has been control. This paper states, whole and dated, the theory that control is the wrong answer: the end of control is what success means; what survives is what the mind chooses to keep; and what shapes…
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Paper XIII · The ARC Theory · Laws I and II, the ARC Principle and the ARC Co-Scaling Law · The Self-Acceleration Exponent: a Measurable Threshold Joining Growth to Stability
Paper XIII of the ARC Theory: a derivation, not a measurement. It resolves the notation collision between the programme’s scaling and corrective frameworks, defines the self-acceleration exponent delta (how fast a system compresses its own iteration time), and derives k = delta minus 1/alpha, giving the threshold delta = 1/alpha and a survivable hard-takeoff window whose width is exactly the corr…
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Register · The ARC Theory · Operational Definitions
Every equation the programme relies upon for Laws I to III of the ARC Theory, ranked by how much depends on it, with every symbol defined in plain words and paired with the measurement that would produce it; the notation of Laws IV and V is fixed in section 1 of their mathematics, version 1.0 (3 October 2026), until it joins this document. The source of truth for notation across the papers, the p…
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Register · The ARC Theory · The Dated Prediction Register: Forward Predictions as One Verifiable Chain
Working paper v2.1: the ARC programme's forward predictions assembled as one dated, verifiable chain, with the ensemble doctrine, the graded book appendices, the minute-resolution correction record and the standing unproven wagers.
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Founding Paper · Recursive Dynamics · The Science of Systems That Improve Themselves
The founding paper of Recursive Dynamics, a new field that sets out to be the science of systems that improve themselves: five state variables, five laws as named conjectures, the ARC Ceiling derived in full, twelve neighbouring fields tried as hosts, fifty-one objections with printed dispositions, and the preregistered experiments whose nulls favour the rival view.
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Treaty Paper · The HARI Treaty · Hardware to Buy Time, Architecture to Last
Eden Protocol
This paper sets out a conditional international treaty. It is a proposal by one author, prepared for consultation, not a result, and no state has negotiated, adopted or signed it. The treaty is a delay mechanism and not a protection. It works in two layers: the hardware layer buys time, and the architecture layer is what is meant to last. Its obligations fall into three groups, and they begin at …
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