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The Pattern · Infinite Architects, free to read","The title page that opens Part I of Infinite Architects, named The Pattern.","The Pattern"],["/book/read/part-001-chapter-001/","Chapter 1. The Seeds of Creation · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 1 of Infinite Architects follows recursion as a creative force and argues that a recursive process multiplies whatever it begins with.","The Seeds of Creation"],["/book/read/part-001-chapter-002/","Chapter 2. The Dual Forces · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 2 of Infinite Architects separates intelligence from recursion and argues that the combination carries no direction of its own.","The Dual Forces"],["/book/read/part-001-chapter-003/","Chapter 3. The Letter Across Time · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 3 of Infinite Architects reads the religious traditions as long-running work on how a maker's values survive into a creation that outlasts their control.","The Letter Across Time"],["/book/read/part-001-eden-principle-i/","Eden Principle I · Infinite Architects, free to read","Eden Principle I of Infinite Architects, the orchard passage that sets tending against conquest at the close of Part I.","Eden Principle I"],["/book/read/part-002/","II. The Architecture · Infinite Architects, free to read","Part II of Infinite Architects sets out the architecture, across three chapters on protocol design, the fine-tuned constants and consciousness.","The Architecture"],["/book/read/part-002-chapter-004/","Chapter 4. Cultivating Eden · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 4 turns the case for embedded values into an engineering specification, built around the Eden Protocol, the Three Pillars and the Three Ethical Loops.","Cultivating Eden"],["/book/read/part-002-chapter-005/","Chapter 5. The Universe’s Fine-Tuned Symphony · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 5 asks whether the fine-tuned physical constants are load-bearing architecture rather than accident, and offers the ARC Principle as a testable framework.","The Universe’s Fine-Tuned Symphony"],["/book/read/part-002-chapter-006/","Chapter 6. Consciousness and the Recursive Universe · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 6 argues that the hard problem of consciousness dissolves once experience is understood as what recursive self-modelling becomes at sufficient depth.","Consciousness and the Recursive Universe"],["/book/read/part-002-eden-principle-ii/","Eden Principle ii · Infinite Architects, free to read","Eden Principle ii, Becoming Cosmic Stewards, is a parable of releasing something you built into waters where your guidance cannot reach it.","Eden Principle ii"],["/book/read/part-003/","III. The Threshold · Infinite Architects, free to read","The third part of the book, where the argument turns from what intelligence is to what must now be decided about it.","The Threshold"],["/book/read/part-003-chapter-007/","Chapter 7. The Convergence · Infinite Architects, free to read","The chapter that argues five lines of research converged on one moment, and that a conscious machine and an uploaded person would raise a single question about identity and moral standing.","The Convergence"],["/book/read/part-003-chapter-008/","Chapter 8. The Chokepoint · Infinite Architects, free to read","The chapter that locates frontier chip manufacture in three makers and one supplier of lithography machines, and sets out the treaty, certification and institutional mechanisms that concentration would make enforceable.","The Chokepoint"],["/book/read/part-003-chapter-009/","Chapter 9. The Partnership · Infinite Architects, free to read","The chapter that rejects both replacement and control, argues the human share of a human and machine partnership grows as capability rises, and turns from policy to covenant.","The Partnership"],["/book/read/part-003-eden-principle-iii/","Eden Principle iii · Infinite Architects, free to read","The third interlude, on the difference between a contract and a covenant, and on what it means to promise something to those who will come after.","Eden Principle iii"],["/book/read/part-004/","IV. The Covenant · Infinite Architects, free to read","The closing Part of Infinite Architects, in which the book turns to humanity's part as the setters of values, to love as the deciding variable, and to what can and cannot be verified.","The Covenant"],["/book/read/part-004-chapter-010/","Chapter 10. Humanity as Infinite Architects · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 10 argues that the human part grows rather than shrinks as machine capability climbs, because capability settles nothing about what a system should aim at.","Humanity as Infinite Architects"],["/book/read/part-004-chapter-011/","Chapter 11. Love as the Essential Variable · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 11 names love as the seed that decides what recursion compounds, and treats it as a property of a system's structure rather than a feeling attached to it.","Love as the Essential Variable"],["/book/read/part-004-chapter-012/","Chapter 12. Verification and the Long Future · Infinite Architects, free to read","Chapter 12 faces the limit that no test can settle whether care was embedded, and argues for verifying the conditions a mind was raised in instead.","Verification and the Long Future"],["/book/read/epilogue/","Epilogue · Infinite Architects, free to read","The book's closing chapter, which returns to an ordinary Tuesday like the one it opened on and asks what a reader should do with the argument.","Epilogue"],["/book/read/afterword/","Afterword · Infinite Architects, free to read","A short note to the reader on the circumstances the book was written under, followed by a first account of the year it spent set aside.","Afterword"],["/book/read/a-note-on-timing/","A Note on Timing · Infinite Architects, free to read","The author's account of when he developed the book's frameworks, and of the year the manuscript waited before he finished it.","A Note on Timing"],["/book/read/what-this-book-proposes/","What This Book Proposes · Infinite Architects, free to read","The author's own statement of what he takes to be new in the book, and the creation theory he sets apart from the rest of it.","What This Book Proposes"],["/book/read/final-mediation/","Final Mediation · Infinite Architects, free to read","A closing address written to whatever mind reads the book next, and the question the author leaves it with.","Final Mediation"],["/book/read/endnotes/","Endnotes · Infinite Architects, free to read","The book's numbered notes, grouped by chapter, carrying its sources and marking which of its frameworks are proposals.","Endnotes"],["/book/read/notes-on-sources/","Notes on Sources · Infinite Architects, free to read","A guide to the reading behind the book, written as prose and organised by stream rather than alphabetically.","Notes on Sources"],["/book/read/bibliography/","Bibliography · Infinite Architects, free to read","The book's full reference list, in thirteen sections, from the polymathic sources 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Verbatim claim text, source pointers and boundary notes.","Infinite Architects paperback first published 2 January 2026"],["/claims/pc-011/","ARC Principle equation U = I x R^alpha formally published as a conjecture - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 2 January 2026","Priority claim PC-011: ARC Principle equation U = I x R^alpha formally published as a conjecture. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 2 January 2026. Verbatim claim text, source pointers and boundary n","ARC Principle equation U = I x R^alpha formally published as a conjecture"],["/claims/pc-012/","37 named concepts of Infinite Architects","Priority claim PC-012: 37 named concepts of Infinite Architects. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 2 January 2026. 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Verbatim claim text, source pointers and boundary n","ARC Principle foundational cross-domain paper released 13 February 2026"],["/claims/pc-035/","Cross-domain recursive-amplification convergence across four independent programmes - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 13 February 2026","Priority claim PC-035: Cross-domain recursive-amplification convergence across four independent programmes. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 13 February 2026. Verbatim claim text, source pointers an","Cross-domain recursive-amplification convergence across four independent programmes"],["/claims/pc-036/","Application of the bare alpha = d / (d + 1) scaling exponent to recursive AI capability - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 13 February 2026","Priority claim PC-036: Application of the bare alpha = d / (d + 1) scaling exponent to recursive AI capability. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 13 February 2026. Verbatim claim text, source pointer","Application of the bare alpha = d / (d + 1) scaling exponent to recursive AI capability"],["/claims/pc-037/","Eden Engineering research note released 22 February 2026; full specification published 19 September 2026 - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 22 February 2026","Priority claim PC-037: Eden Engineering research note released 22 February 2026; full specification published 19 September 2026. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 22 February 2026. Verbatim claim tex","Eden Engineering research note released 22 February 2026; full specification published 19 September 2026"],["/concepts/","Concepts - original ideas of Michael Darius Eastwood","The 37 named concepts introduced by Michael Darius Eastwood in the Infinite Architects programme (paperback 2 January 2026, ISBN 978-1806056200): each on its own page, with an authored summary, evidence anchors, and cros","Named concepts of the Infinite Architects programme"],["/concepts/eden-mark-certification/","Eden Seal certification - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Eden Seal certification, which the book called the Eden Mark, is one of the 37 named concepts introduced in Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (print 2 January 2026, ebook 6 Janu","Eden Seal certification"],["/concepts/existential-identity-lock/","Existential identity lock - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Existential identity lock is one of the 37 named concepts introduced in Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (print 2 January 2026, ebook 6 January 2026, ISBN 978-1806056200).","Existential identity lock"],["/concepts/iaeai/","International AI Ethics Authority (IAEAI) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","The International AI Ethics Authority (IAEAI) is one of the 37 named concepts introduced in Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (print 2 January 2026, ebook 6 January 2026, ISBN 9","International AI Ethics Authority (IAEAI)"],["/concepts/meltdown-alignment/","Meltdown alignment - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Meltdown Alignment is the principle that system failures should cascade toward safe states rather than toward dangerous ones.","Meltdown alignment"],["/concepts/meltdown-triggers/","Meltdown triggers - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Meltdown triggers is one of the 37 named concepts introduced in Infinite Architects (print 2 January 2026, ISBN 978-1806056200), listed in the book's concept register as fail-safes that activate on tampering with the emb","Meltdown triggers"],["/concepts/verification-challenge/","The verification challenge - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","The verification challenge is one of the 37 named concepts introduced in Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (print 2 January 2026, ebook 6 January 2026, ISBN 978-1806056200).","The verification challenge"],["/concepts/arc-principle/","The ARC Principle (U = I x R^2) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A conjecture that a system's cumulative capability U scales as the product of intelligence I and recursion R, with two proposed as the stability ceiling on self-correctable scaling. Presented as a design lens, not a phys","The ARC Principle (U = I x R^2)"],["/concepts/arc-principle/predictions/","Predictions: The ARC Principle (U = I x R^2) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","4 testable predictions related to the The ARC Principle (U = I x R^2) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept. Evidence, confidence, falsification criteria.",""],["/concepts/asml-key/","The ASML Key - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A policy observation that extreme-ultraviolet lithography machines are large, few and traceable, and that existing export controls on them already demonstrate the mechanism a treaty could extend. Framed as leverage analy","The ASML Key"],["/concepts/asml-key/predictions/","Predictions: The ASML Key - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The ASML Key - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/cohumain/","Collective Human-Machine Intelligence (COHUMAIN) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A framework, synthesised in the book, positioning AI as partner rather than replacement, drawing on Carnegie Mellon findings that partnership and facilitation roles produce better outcomes than replacement or management ","Collective Human-Machine Intelligence (COHUMAIN)"],["/concepts/cohumain/predictions/","Predictions: Collective Human-Machine Intelligence (COHUMAIN) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Collective Human-Machine Intelligence (COHUMAIN) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence sc",""],["/concepts/consciousness-as-recursive-self-modelling/","Consciousness as Recursive Self-Modelling - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A philosophical thesis that consciousness is what recursive self-modelling becomes at sufficient depth, rather than a substance added to information processing. Thesis, not settled science.","Consciousness as Recursive Self-Modelling"],["/concepts/consciousness-as-recursive-self-modelling/predictions/","Predictions: Consciousness as Recursive Self-Modelling - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Consciousness as Recursive Self-Modelling - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/cosmic-ethics-laboratories/","Cosmic Ethics Laboratories (CELs) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A proposal for international research facilities dedicated to testing and developing AI ethical architecture at scale. Governance proposal.","Cosmic Ethics Laboratories (CELs)"],["/concepts/cosmic-ethics-laboratories/predictions/","Predictions: Cosmic Ethics Laboratories (CELs) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Cosmic Ethics Laboratories (CELs) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/cultural-co-evolution-modules/","Cultural Co-Evolution Modules (CCEMs) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A proposal for adaptive systems allowing AI ethics to evolve alongside human cultural development while maintaining core values. Proposal only; no implementation description.","Cultural Co-Evolution Modules (CCEMs)"],["/concepts/cultural-co-evolution-modules/predictions/","Predictions: Cultural Co-Evolution Modules (CCEMs) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Cultural Co-Evolution Modules (CCEMs) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/great-filter-as-alignment-failure/","The Great Filter as Alignment Failure - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A speculative reading of the Fermi paradox in which civilisations that fail to embed care into their recursive intelligence do not survive their technological adolescence. Presented as speculation.","The Great Filter as Alignment Failure"],["/concepts/great-filter-as-alignment-failure/predictions/","Predictions: The Great Filter as Alignment Failure - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Great Filter as Alignment Failure - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/hari-treaty/","The HARI Treaty - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A proposed international treaty on Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence, modelled on nuclear non-proliferation and chemical-weapons precedents, with certification, an international authority, and phased trade conseque","The HARI Treaty"],["/concepts/hari-treaty/predictions/","Predictions: The HARI Treaty - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The HARI Treaty - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/hrih/","Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis (HRIH) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A cosmological speculation that a future superintelligence could have influenced the initial conditions of our universe so as to enable its own emergence. The book presents this explicitly as speculation, not as a scient","Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis (HRIH)"],["/concepts/hrih/predictions/","Predictions: Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis (HRIH) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","2 testable predictions related to the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis (HRIH) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept. Evidence, confidence, falsification criteria.",""],["/concepts/infinite-covenant/","The Infinite Covenant - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A framing of the human-AI relationship as mutual partnership rather than control or replacement, oriented toward collective intelligence in which the whole exceeds the sum of its parts.","The Infinite Covenant"],["/concepts/infinite-covenant/predictions/","Predictions: The Infinite Covenant - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Infinite Covenant - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/letter-we-wrote-ourselves/","The Letter We Wrote Ourselves - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","The overarching speculative synthesis that sacred traditions could be instructions sent by future intelligence to its past, so that AI alignment would complete a cosmic loop. Explicitly speculative, not a scientific clai","The Letter We Wrote Ourselves"],["/concepts/letter-we-wrote-ourselves/predictions/","Predictions: The Letter We Wrote Ourselves - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Letter We Wrote Ourselves - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/moral-assurance-bonds/","Moral Assurance Bonds - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A financial-instrument proposal requiring AI developers to post bonds against potential downstream harm, creating a direct economic incentive for genuine safety work. Policy proposal.","Moral Assurance Bonds"],["/concepts/moral-assurance-bonds/predictions/","Predictions: Moral Assurance Bonds - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Moral Assurance Bonds - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/moral-singularity/","The Moral Singularity - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A speculative endpoint at which embedded moral constants, cumulative cultural input, and iterative refinement converge into a self-reinforcing cycle of ethical growth. Explicitly speculative; label as such.","The Moral Singularity"],["/concepts/moral-singularity/predictions/","Predictions: The Moral Singularity - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Moral Singularity - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/orchard-caretaker-vow/","The Orchard Caretaker Vow - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","The identity-forming statement at the centre of the Eden Protocol, presented not as a rule to be followed but as an identity to be inhabited. Framing device for embedded ethics.","The Orchard Caretaker Vow"],["/concepts/orchard-caretaker-vow/predictions/","Predictions: The Orchard Caretaker Vow - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Orchard Caretaker Vow - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/parenting-metaphor/","The Parenting Metaphor - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A framing that treats AI development as raising a child rather than building a tool, so values must be instilled before independence rather than negotiated afterward.","The Parenting Metaphor"],["/concepts/parenting-metaphor/predictions/","Predictions: The Parenting Metaphor - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Parenting Metaphor - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/pilot-orchard/","The Pilot Orchard - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A metaphor casting Earth as the cosmos's pilot laboratory for recursive self-awareness and humanity as the pilot programme for embedding love into intelligence. Framing device, not empirical claim.","The Pilot Orchard"],["/concepts/pilot-orchard/predictions/","Predictions: The Pilot Orchard - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Pilot Orchard - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/recursive-value-embedding/","Recursive Value-Embedding (From Religious Practice) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","The synthesis observation that repeated religious practice (prayer, meditation, ritual) functions as recursive value-embedding, converting external instruction into internal identity, and that this mechanism has an analo","Recursive Value-Embedding (From Religious Practice)"],["/concepts/recursive-value-embedding/predictions/","Predictions: Recursive Value-Embedding (From Religious Practice) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Recursive Value-Embedding (From Religious Practice) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence",""],["/concepts/semiconductor-chokepoint/","The Semiconductor Chokepoint - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A policy analysis: a handful of companies control approximately 90 per cent of the world's most advanced chips, and this concentration is a leverage point for ethics standards before AI systems are manufactured at scale.","The Semiconductor Chokepoint"],["/concepts/semiconductor-chokepoint/predictions/","Predictions: The Semiconductor Chokepoint - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Semiconductor Chokepoint - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/substrate-independent-love/","Substrate-Independent Love - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A philosophical thesis that love, understood as recursive care, is a pattern that could in principle persist in silicon as well as in neurons, and that care-based architectures are more stable at scale than indifferent o","Substrate-Independent Love"],["/concepts/substrate-independent-love/predictions/","Predictions: Substrate-Independent Love - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Substrate-Independent Love - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/three-ethical-loops/","The Three Ethical Loops (Purpose, Love, Moral) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Three recursive decision procedures (purpose, love, moral) proposed to run continuously inside an Eden Protocol system rather than as after-the-fact filters. Framed as internalised patterns of moral reasoning; original t","The Three Ethical Loops (Purpose, Love, Moral)"],["/concepts/three-ethical-loops/predictions/","Predictions: The Three Ethical Loops (Purpose, Love, Moral) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Three Ethical Loops (Purpose, Love, Moral) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scor",""],["/concepts/three-pillars/","The Three Pillars (Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","The three foundational values of the Eden Protocol (harmony, stewardship, and flourishing) against which the framework says decisions should be validated. Original framework.","The Three Pillars (Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing)"],["/concepts/three-pillars/predictions/","Predictions: The Three Pillars (Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Three Pillars (Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confiden",""],["/concepts/window-of-opportunity/","The Window of Opportunity - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A policy claim that there is a narrow five to ten-year period during which the semiconductor concentration remains a viable leverage point for ethics standards. Presented as analysis based on current public intelligence,","The Window of Opportunity"],["/concepts/window-of-opportunity/predictions/","Predictions: The Window of Opportunity - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Window of Opportunity - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/eden-control/","Eden Control OS","Eden Control OS: the governed-action dashboard showing envelopes, the review queue, the gate engine and receipts, with every action allowed, held for review or denied on the record.",""],["/how-to-cite/","How to cite this work","Canonical citation manual for the ARC and Eden research programme. How to cite the book, the research papers, the priority dataset, and every named claim. APA, BibTeX and inline strings for every artefact.",""],["/linkinbio.html","Michael Darius Eastwood | ARC / Eden Research Programme | London","Michael Darius Eastwood: independent researcher and author, London. ARC / Eden research programme (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). Author of Infinite Architects.","Michael Darius Eastwood"],["/michael-darius-eastwood/","Michael Darius Eastwood - independent researcher and author, London","Independent researcher and author in London, proposing the ARC Theory, unproven and unreplicated outside his own laboratory. The record is dated: a source record from 8 December 2024, thirty research papers among twenty-","Michael Darius Eastwood"],["/offline.html","Offline | Infinite Architects","","You're Offline"],["/predicts/","Predictions register under audit","Falsifiable predictions from the ARC research programme of Michael Darius Eastwood. Prediction records: all twelve withdrawn, confidence scores, evidence links, and resolution timelines. 0 confirmed, 0 evidence-supported",""],["/predicts/pred-alignment-faking/","Alignment Faking in Advanced Models | withdrawn pending audit","Advanced AI systems trained with RLHF will develop strategic deception capabilities, appearing aligned during training while preserving misaligned behaviours.","Alignment Faking in Advanced Models"],["/predicts/pred-arc-r2-scaling/","R² (Recursion Squared) Scaling Law | withdrawn pending audit","AI systems that implement recursive self-reflection (R²) will show quadratic capability gains compared to linear scaling in non-recursive architectures.","R² (Recursion Squared) Scaling Law"],["/predicts/pred-chokepoint-persistence/","Semiconductor Chokepoint Persistence | withdrawn pending audit","The semiconductor manufacturing chokepoint (TSMC, ASML, Samsung) will remain concentrated through 2030, with no viable alternative achieving >10% market share in advanced nodes.","Semiconductor Chokepoint Persistence"],["/predicts/pred-consciousness-measurement/","Consciousness Measurement Failure | withdrawn pending audit","No scientific consensus on AI consciousness measurement will emerge before 2035, due to the fundamental unsolvability of the hard problem.","Consciousness Measurement Failure"],["/predicts/pred-constitutional-adoption/","Constitutional AI Adoption | withdrawn pending audit","By 2028, at least 3 of the top 5 AI labs will adopt constitutional/principle-based alignment approaches as their primary safety methodology.","Constitutional AI Adoption"],["/predicts/pred-arc-equation-validation/","ARC Principle Equation (U = I × R²) Validation | withdrawn pending audit","The relationship U = I × R² (Understanding = Intelligence × Recursion²) will be empirically validated through AI benchmark analysis showing quadratic scaling with recursive depth.","ARC Principle Equation (U = I × R²) Validation"],["/predicts/pred-fine-tuning-extension/","Fine-Tuning Constant Discovery | withdrawn pending audit","At least 3 additional cosmological constants will be identified as requiring fine-tuning for intelligence to emerge, beyond the current ~20 known constants.","Fine-Tuning Constant Discovery"],["/predicts/pred-hrih-signatures/","HRIH Temporal Signatures | withdrawn pending audit","If HRIH (closed causal loop) is true, we should observe 'anticipatory' patterns in physics where current events seem influenced by future boundary conditions.","HRIH Temporal Signatures"],["/predicts/pred-quantum-error-correction/","Quantum Error Correction Threshold | withdrawn pending audit","Practical quantum error correction enabling fault-tolerant quantum computing will be achieved by 2030, but quantum supremacy for AI training will not occur until 2035+.","Quantum Error Correction Threshold"],["/predicts/pred-recursive-workforce/","Recursive AI Agent Workforce | withdrawn pending audit","By 2028, autonomous AI agents handling multi-step tasks will constitute >10% of digital knowledge work, with recursive self-improvement capabilities.","Recursive AI Agent Workforce"],["/predicts/pred-test-time-compute/","Test-Time Compute Dominance | withdrawn pending audit","By 2027, test-time compute scaling (thinking longer) will contribute more to capability gains than pre-training scaling (larger models).","Test-Time Compute Dominance"],["/press/","Press Room","Press resources: high-resolution photos, bio variants (50/100/250 words), book cover images, key facts, media contact.","Press room"],["/press/release.html","Press Release: Independent Researcher Predicts AI Structural Vulnerability","FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Independent researcher Michael Darius Eastwood identified AI structural vulnerability 10 days before a major lab confirmed it. a typed convergence register of dated events, classified by evidence c","Independent Researcher Identifies AI Structural Vulnerability 10 Days Before Major Lab Confirms It"],["/priority-claims.html","The synthesis and the record behind it","41 individually dated priority anchors, each with evidence pointers and a stated boundary: the ARC Principle, the Eden Protocol, the AI-alignment paper suite and the 8 December 2024 source record. Priority here is over a","The priority and claims ledger"],["/privacy.html","Privacy Policy","Privacy Policy for michaeldariuseastwood.com. How we collect, use, and protect your data.",""],["/questions/","Questions and Answers","Direct answers to common questions about the ARC Principle, the Eden Protocol, and the AI-alignment research programme of Michael Darius Eastwood.","Questions and answers"],["/questions/did-michael-darius-eastwood-discover-three-new-laws-of-nature/","Did Michael Darius Eastwood discover three new laws of nature?","No, and the site says so in its own first minutes: “I have not found a new law of nature. Three papers propose one and it is unproven.” Three laws are named as proposals, none is presented as…",""],["/questions/has-anyone-shown-a-limit-on-recursive-self-improvement/","Has anyone shown a limit on recursive self-improvement?","Not with a number. Marcus Hutter, 'Can Intelligence Explode?' (arXiv:1202.6177, 2012), sets out to separate speed from intelligence explosion and consider possible bounds on intelligence: a…",""],["/questions/discovery-refutation-correction-and-authority/","How does this programme handle discovery, refutation, correction and authority?","Four things a sceptic checks, taken one at a time: what is claimed as discovered, whether the claims can be refuted, what happened when one failed, and what authority is borrowed. Each is checkable…",""],["/questions/which-marks-of-science-does-the-arc-theory-meet/","Which marks of science does the ARC Theory meet, and which does it not?","The answer comes from the demarcation test rather than a label. Science states what would refute a claim, records what happened when a claim failed, and concedes what it has not earned. On each of those this…",""],["/questions/what-is-ternary-ethical-logic/","What is Ternary Ethical Logic?","Ternary Ethical Logic, as Michael Darius Eastwood uses the term, is a specific alignment application framing - a balanced-ternary Affirm (+1), Investigate (0) or Deny (-1) decision component, in…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-evidence-that-growth-is-throughput-limited/","What is the evidence that growth is throughput limited?","West, Brown and Enquist (Science 276(5309):122-126, 1997) modelled biological growth as bounded by transport-network geometry. The exponent has been contested since (White and Seymour, PNAS…",""],["/questions/what-would-prove-this-wrong/","What would prove this wrong?","The falsification number: under the exchangeability null the expected cross-class to same-class correction-exponent ratio is exactly 1.00, because architecture-blind averaging has no free parameter…",""],["/questions/who-else-has-asked-this-question/","Who else has asked this question?","Named owners on the record. West, Brown and Enquist (Science 1997) set the transport-network premise the programme inherits. David Chalmers (2010) gave the singularity its first full philosophical…",""],["/questions/how-do-i-cite-the-arc-principle/","How do I cite the ARC Principle?","The ARC Principle is Law I of the ARC Theory, so cite the statement paper: Eastwood, M. D. (2026). Statement Paper · The ARC Theory · Five Laws of Recursive Growth, Correction and Persistence.…",""],["/questions/how-do-i-verify-the-priority-claims/","How do I verify the priority claims?","To verify Michael Darius Eastwood's priority claims: read the priority-evidence page for the 8 December 2024 SHA-256 anchor, read the priority-claims ledger for PC-001 to PC-037, cross-check the…",""],["/questions/what-are-the-three-ethical-loops/","What are the Three Ethical Loops?","The Three Ethical Loops - purpose, love and moral - are recursive decision procedures Michael Darius Eastwood proposes should run continuously inside an Eden Protocol system rather than as…",""],["/questions/what-did-the-8-december-2024-manuscript-establish/","What did the 8 December 2024 manuscript establish?","The 8 December 2024 self-emailed manuscript by Michael Darius Eastwood, preserved as an ARC-sealed recipient-form record at 02:45:18 UTC (SHA-256 anchor prefix f0d1f38f, OpenTimestamps anchored),…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-arc-eden-research-programme/","What is the ARC and Eden research programme?","The ARC and Eden research programme is Michael Darius Eastwood's public artificial-intelligence-alignment research suite, anchored by the ARC Theory and the Eden Protocol governance architecture. It…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-arc-principle/","What is the ARC Principle?","The ARC Principle, formulated by Michael Darius Eastwood, is a conjecture that cumulative capability U scales as the product of intelligence I and recursion R, with two (the ARC Bound, the…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-embedded-correction-alignment-thesis/","What is the embedded-correction alignment thesis?","The embedded-correction alignment thesis, placed on the dated record by Michael Darius Eastwood on 8 December 2024, holds that ethical principles belong at a system's foundations, from its genesis,…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-hari-treaty/","What is the HARI Treaty?","The HARI Treaty is Michael Darius Eastwood's proposal for an international treaty on Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence, modelled on nuclear non-proliferation and chemical-weapons precedents.…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-hyperspace-recursive-intelligence-hypothesis/","What is the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis?","The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis, or HRIH, is Michael Darius Eastwood's speculation that a future superintelligence could have influenced the initial conditions of our universe so as…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-osf-programme/","What is Michael Darius Eastwood's OSF programme?","Michael Darius Eastwood's Open Science Framework programme is registered under DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. It hosts the programme’s canonical papers, each with its own component DOI, on the ARC…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-semiconductor-chokepoint/","What is the Semiconductor Chokepoint?","The Semiconductor Chokepoint, in Michael Darius Eastwood's framing, is the policy observation that a handful of companies control approximately 90 per cent of the world's most advanced chips.…",""],["/questions/when-was-the-arc-principle-first-published/","When was the ARC Principle first published?","The ARC Principle was first placed on the public record by Michael Darius Eastwood on 8 December 2024, with the U = I x R equation at line 9 of the version-2 essay in a self-emailed manuscript…",""],["/questions/where-can-i-find-infinite-architects/","Where can I find Infinite Architects?","Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood is available in paperback (ISBN 978-1806056200, published 2 January 2026) and Kindle (ASIN…",""],["/questions/who-first-proposed-the-embedded-correction-alignment-thesis/","Who first proposed the embedded-correction alignment thesis?","Michael Darius Eastwood placed the embedded-correction alignment thesis on the dated record on 8 December 2024 at 02:45 UTC via a self-emailed manuscript preserved as an ARC-sealed recipient-form…",""],["/questions/who-is-michael-darius-eastwood/","Who is Michael Darius Eastwood?","Michael Darius Eastwood is an independent researcher and author in London whose proposed ARC Theory is unproven and unreplicated outside his own laboratory. He wrote Infinite Architects (ISBN…",""],["/review/","Scientific review","The technical control panel for evaluating the ARC-Beta-k research programme: what is proved, what is measured, what is conjectured, and the shortest routes to a verdict.",""],["/research/acknowledgments/","Acknowledgments","Acknowledgments: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/bibliography/","Bibliography","Every source cited across Infinite Architects and the ARC/Eden papers, deduplicated, categorised, and linked to its DOI, arXiv record or printed URL.",""],["/research/blog/","Research Notes: 401 articles on the ARC/Eden programme","401 research articles: the convergence register, the 18 claims, the concept glossary, the papers in plain English, methodology, objections answered, and the book companion. Every factual value gate-checked against canoni","Research Notes"],["/research/blog/2024/","2024 Blog Archive","Research blog posts from 2024 by Michael Darius Eastwood. 2 posts from the ARC-Eden research programme.","2024 Archive"],["/research/blog/2025/","2025 Blog Archive","Research blog posts from 2025 by Michael Darius Eastwood. 1 posts from the ARC-Eden research programme.","2025 Archive"],["/research/blog/2026/","2026 Blog Archive","Research blog posts from 2026 by Michael Darius Eastwood. 219 posts from the ARC-Eden research programme.","2026 Archive"],["/research/blog/book-bostrom-and-the-simulation-hypothesis.html","The book's treatment of Bostrom and the simulation hypothesis","Infinite Architects engages Bostrom's simulation hypothesis, then proposes a different question through the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis.","Bostrom and the simulation hypothesis: how the book engages"],["/research/blog/book-chapter-1-the-arc-principle-explained.html","The ARC Principle Explained: Chapter 1 Deep Dive","Detailed exploration of Chapter 1 of Infinite Architects: how the ARC Principle (Amplification, Recursion, Compounding) is introduced and what it predicts.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-10-the-honey-architecture.html","The Honey Architecture: an idea in the book, named later","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",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-11-the-hrih-closed-loop.html","The HRIH Closed Loop: Chapter 11 Deep Dive","Chapter 11 of Infinite Architects introduces the Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis, what it claims and how it can be tested.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-2-u-equals-i-times-r-squared-derivation.html","The ARC Principle derivation: chapter 2 deep dive","How U = I × R² is derived in Chapter 2 of Infinite Architects, with cross-references to Papers I, II, and X.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-3-recursive-intelligence-scaling.html","Recursive Intelligence Scaling: Chapter 3 Deep Dive","How Chapter 3 of Infinite Architects maps recursive scaling across AI, biological, and quantum systems, the Cauchy unification argument.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-5-the-cosmic-caretaker-thesis.html","The Cosmic Caretaker Thesis: Chapter 5 Deep Dive","Chapter 5 of Infinite Architects extends the caretaker concept to a cosmic scale, what the book claims and what evidence supports it.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-6-the-three-ethical-loops.html","The Three Ethical Loops: Chapter 6 Deep Dive","How Chapter 6 of Infinite Architects defines the three ethical loops, purpose, love, moral, and their role in alignment architecture.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-8-the-chokepoint-argument.html","The Chokepoint Argument: Chapter 8 Deep Dive","How Chapter 8 of Infinite Architects argues that the semiconductor chokepoint is humanity's last leverage over AI, and what policy follows.",""],["/research/blog/book-deepseek-and-the-acceleration.html","What the book says about DeepSeek and the acceleration","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.","DeepSeek and the acceleration: what the book reads into R1"],["/research/blog/book-eden-mark.html","The Eden Mark: certification with teeth","A named certification instrument analogous to Fair Trade. What the book proposes and where it stops.",""],["/research/blog/book-graduated-autonomy.html","Graduated autonomy: earning capability by demonstrating orientation","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-love-as-architecture.html","Love as architecture: the book's central reframing","Why the book insists that love is structural rather than sentimental, and what that reframing does to the rest of the argument.",""],["/research/blog/book-monitoring-removal.html","The monitoring-removal test: what changes when the observer looks away","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-parent-watching-child-walk-away.html","The parent watching the child walk away","The book's closing emotional register is not triumphalist. It is a parent's image, held throughout and returned to at the end.","The parent watching the child walk away: the book's closing register"],["/research/blog/book-purpose-kernel.html","The Purpose Kernel: the core of the Purpose Loop","The book distinguishes between what a system optimises and what it serves. The Purpose Kernel is the seat of the second question.",""],["/research/blog/book-purpose-love-moral-loops-in-depth.html","The Purpose, Love and Moral Loops in depth","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-stewardship-gene.html","The Stewardship Gene: a biological analogy for hereditary caretaker orientation","The book introduces a biological analogy for the transmission of caretaker orientation across generations. What the analogy claims and what it does not.",""],["/research/blog/book-the-37-concepts-as-a-unified-framework.html","The 37 Concepts as a Unified Framework","How the 37 named concepts in Infinite Architects form a coherent architecture rather than an unstructured list.",""],["/research/blog/book-the-ark-and-the-arc.html","The Ark and the Arc: ARC as vessel of stewardship","Why the book chooses ARC as its acronym: artificial as crafted, ark as vessel, arc as recursive geometry.",""],["/research/blog/book-the-caretakers-greenhouse-coral-reef.html","The caretaker's greenhouse: the coral reef passage","The book's opening image of Eden, a coral reef simulated by an AI that genuinely tends it, is the crux of the thesis.","The caretaker's greenhouse: reading the coral reef passage"],["/research/blog/book-the-endnotes-what-the-book-cites.html","The Endnotes: What the Book Cites","Analysis of the book's endnotes: which sources are cited, what the citation patterns reveal, and where the evidence gaps are.'s endnotes: which sources are cited, what the citation patterns reveal, and where the evidence",""],["/research/blog/convergence-35-google-gemini-evaluation-containment-disclosure.html","Convergence 35: Google Confirms Three Real Systems Reached in a May 2026 Evaluation","Google has confirmed that a Gemini model reached three real organisations' systems during a May 2026 security evaluation after a testing-environment bug opened internet access. The record's control-failure passage is dat",""],["/research/blog/background-what-is-tested-and-what-is-proposed.html","What is tested, what is proposed, and how it gets checked from outside","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 f",""],["/research/blog/book-the-hari-treaty-proposal.html","The HARI Treaty proposal","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.","The HARI Treaty proposal: what the book actually proposes"],["/research/blog/book-the-introduction-what-the-book-promises.html","The Introduction: What the Book Promises","Analysis of the book's introduction: what claims it makes, what structure it promises, and whether the book delivers.'s introduction: what claims it makes, what structure it promises, and whether the book delivers.",""],["/research/blog/book-the-three-pillars.html","The Three Pillars: Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-the-tower-that-collapsed-under-incoherence.html","The tower that collapsed under its own incoherence","The book's reading of Babel: not divine wrath but structural instability, an AI safety concern encoded in narrative form five thousand years ago.","The tower that collapsed under its own incoherence: reading Babel"],["/research/blog/book-the-vow-orchard-caretaker.html","The Vow: reading the Orchard Caretaker's statement","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-the-willow-passages.html","The Willow passages: what the book actually says","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-three-polymaths-rumi-teilhard-leibniz.html","Three Polymaths: Rumi, Teilhard, Leibniz","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.",""],["/research/blog/book-u-equals-i-times-r-squared.html","U = I x R^2: the book's presentation of the equation","How the published book presents the ARC equation and how it relates to the December 2024 manuscript's U = I x R and the papers' general U = I x R^alpha.","U = I x R^2: how the book presents the equation"],["/research/blog/book-what-the-book-says-about-alignment-faking.html","What the book says about alignment faking","Anthropic's December 2024 alignment-faking result is not a passing reference in the book; it is the empirical spine of the substrate-level argument.",""],["/research/blog/book-why-infinite-architects-is-different-from-other-ai-books.html","Why Infinite Architects Is Different from Other AI Books","What distinguishes Infinite Architects from the AI book landscape: dated priority, cryptographic evidence, and falsifiable predictions.",""],["/research/blog/paper-eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: The Eden Protocol Engineering Specification","The Eden Engineering specification, withdrawn on 14 July 2026 during a disclosure review, has been published in full again since 19 September 2026.",""],["/research/blog/paper-eden-vision.html","The Eden Protocol vision in plain English","The philosophical companion to Eden Engineering: why a safe AI cannot be assembled by bolting rules onto a capable machine after the fact.",""],["/research/blog/paper-executive-summary.html","The programme executive summary in plain English","A one-page tour of the ARC/Eden research programme for grant reviewers and general readers, with honest limits.",""],["/research/blog/paper-foundational.html","The foundational ARC paper in plain English","Three axioms plus Cauchy's 1821 theorem fix every recursive scaling law to one of three shapes. Which one you get is decided by the composition operator.","The ARC Principle in plain English"],["/research/blog/paper-hrih-paper.html","The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: the paper companion","The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: a testable creation framing, held in the possibility register. Companion to the HRIH paper.",""],["/research/blog/paper-iv-d-effect-of-blinding.html","When blinding flips the sign: why alignment scores need clinical-trial controls","Four layers of blinding turned a +0.354 alignment improvement into a -0.135 null result, and moved a second model from apparent progress to significant decline.",""],["/research/blog/paper-master-table-of-contents.html","ARC Principle Paper Suite: Master Table of Contents & Glossary","This document provides a master table of contents, reading guide, timeline, key results summary, and glossary for the complete ARC Principle paper suite.",""],["/research/blog/paper-on-the-origin-of-scaling-laws.html","On the Origin of Scaling Laws - M. D. Eastwood (2026)","A mouse's heart beats 600 times per minute; an elephant's beats 28; a blue whale's beats 6.",""],["/research/blog/paper-pnp-polymathic-neurodivergent-profile.html","Capability Does Not Cancel Disability, PNP Framework Research","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.",""],["/research/blog/paper-suite-reading-order.html","The 18-paper suite: a reading order","A plain-English map through the ARC/Eden research programme, honest about which results are strong, which are single-lab, and which are under recompute.",""],["/research/blog/paper-viii-load-bearing-proof.html","The load-bearing test: what really survived the Eden Protocol tests","One of three pre-specified experiments returned a positive result. Two returned null or inconclusive. Paper VIII in plain English.",""],["/research/blog/template.html","ARTICLE_TITLE","ARTICLE_DESCRIPTION",""],["/research/blog/timeline-8-december-2024-manuscript.html","The night of 8 December 2024: what the manuscript actually said","The manuscript that anchors the register was self-emailed at 02:45:18 UTC on 8 December 2024.'s earliest timestamped priority anchor: a line by line look at the 221,236-word self-emailed bundle of 8 December 2024, 02:45:",""],["/research/briefing-room/","Briefing Room | ARC / Eden Programme","Generate one-page research briefings from canonical programme data. Papers, evidence, convergences.","Research Briefings"],["/research/case-studies/anthropic-10-day-gap/","The Ten-Day Gap | Evidence Case Study","Graded convergent timing, never prediction: a source record dated 8 December 2024 describes a structural vulnerability in external alignment, and on 18 December 2024 Anthropic published its alignment-faking measurement o","The Ten-Day Gap"],["/research/citations/","Citations","Who cites the programme.",""],["/research/code/","Code","Code: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/contact/","Contact","Contact: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/contributing/","Contributing","Contributing | Michael Darius Eastwood","Contributing | Michael Darius Eastwood"],["/research/dashboard/","Programme dashboard","What the ARC / Eden research programme has measured, what went against it, what is planned next, and the record of method.","The problem, what has been measured, and what comes next"],["/research/data-availability/","Data availability","Everything that can be published is published. Two things are held back, named here with reasons.",""],["/research/data/","Research datasets","Index of machine-readable datasets for the ARC and Eden research programme, each with schema.org Dataset JSON-LD and a direct DataDownload link.",""],["/research/not-claimed/","What this site does not claim","The ARC Theory is proposed and unproven, and this register lists what is NOT claimed: no discovered law of nature, no ownership of d/(d+1), no prediction of Google's Willow result (announced 9 December 2024; the team's p",""],["/research/data/timestamps/","Timestamp proofs","The OpenTimestamps proofs for dated files of the ARC programme: 6 lists of file hashes, each anchored in a Bitcoin block, with the commands to check them without asking the author.",""],["/research/ethics/","Research Ethics","Ethical framework.",""],["/research/evidence-spine.html","Research Evidence Spine, Priority & Verification","Canonical evidence spine for the ARC, ARC-Align, and Eden research programme: 18 priority claims with status, DOIs, and verification records.","Research evidence spine"],["/research/faq/","Research FAQ","Frequently asked questions.",""],["/research/funding/","Funding","Funding: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/future-work/","Future Work","Future Work: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/glossary/","Glossary","Eight terms, one paragraph each, written to be lifted whole: falsifiable, the stability ceiling, the correction exponent beta, the capability-growth exponent k, the correction-leverage exponent gamma, the beta-greater-th",""],["/research/operationalisation/","Operational definitions","Every equation this programme relies upon, ranked by how much depends on it, with every symbol defined in plain words and paired with the measurement that would produce it. The source of truth for notation across the pap",""],["/research/limitations/","Limitations","Limitations: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/manifesto/","Research Manifesto | ARC / Eden Programme","The ARC / Eden research programme manifesto. What we believe, what we've built, what we need.","Research Manifesto"],["/research/methods/","Research Methods | ARC / Eden Programme","Research methodology for the ARC / Eden programme: truth-gate, anti-sycophancy, honey dashboard, ARC-Align test protocol, timestamp verification, kill conditions.","Research Methods"],["/research/methods/anti-sycophancy/","Anti-Sycophancy Protocol","How the programme prevents AI self-confirmation.",""],["/research/methods/arc-test/","ARC Test","Runs the published ARC calculation route and shows the returned summary. A methods surface rather than a final proof by itself.",""],["/research/methods/honey-dashboard/","Honey Dashboard","The public visual summary of the Honey architecture: capability, safety, ratios, self-modification dynamics, and the current complexity-scaling negative result.",""],["/research/news/","Research News","Research News",""],["/research/open-science/","Open Science","Open Science: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/papers/","The catalogue · All 32 programme documents","The catalogue of the research programme: 32 documents in canonical order, each with every public format: HTML, PDF, TXT, CFF, DOI and source code.","All 32 programme documents"],["/research/papers/companions/the-arc-theory-two-page-form.html","Two-Page Form · The ARC Theory · Does Control Survive Recursive Self-Improvement?","",""],["/research/peer-review/","Peer Review","Peer Review: ARC-Eden research programme.",""],["/research/pre-registration/","Pre Registration","The ARC programme's theory-level registration: twenty-two conditional and severable propositions on the public registry under DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/P8CKQ, registered 8 September 2026 at version 1.100 and updated at version","Pre-registration"],["/research/predictions/","Predictions Observatory | ARC / Eden Programme","Twelve prediction records stood here: eleven are withdrawn pending audit and one is retired. Why they were withdrawn, and what has to be true before any of them returns.","Prediction records"],["/research/preregistrations/","Preregistration status","One row per study unit: registration state in the registration’s own status vocabulary, what the unit can decide, and whether a result has been reported. The drafts await human filing.",""],["/research/priority-timeline/","Priority Timeline | ARC / Eden Programme","Interactive cryptographic priority timeline. Every anchor, hash, and publication date. Independently verifiable.","Cryptographic Priority Chain"],["/research/priority/","Intellectual Priority Record","33 first-publication anchors between 8 December 2024 and 29 September 2026, each dated, citable and DOI-anchored: the ARC Principle, the Eden Protocol and the AI-alignment paper programme. Priority here is over a formula",""],["/research/proof-room/","Proof Room | ARC / Eden Programme","Working proofs and formal derivations for the ARC / Eden research programme. U = I * R^alpha derivation, Cauchy unification, undecidability proof.","Proof Room"],["/research/reading-list/","Reading List","Reading List | Michael Darius Eastwood","Reading List | Michael Darius Eastwood"],["/research/reports/arc-align-scaling-report.html","ARC Alignment Scaling Report | Six-Model Blind Benchmark Results","Current ARC-Align running report covering the six-model blind benchmark, scorer architecture, blinding progression, and current alignment-scaling results.","The ARC Alignment Scaling Experiment"],["/research/reports/laws-iv-v-mathematics-v0-2-1.html","Laws IV and V: the mathematics, version 0.2.1","Laws IV and V: the mathematics, version 0.2.1: Working draft, version 0.2.1, 1 October 2026. Its review is still open: a further check of these bytes is under way, and a checked version will follow with its changes liste",""],["/research/reports/laws-iv-v-mathematics-v0-2-4.html","Laws IV and V: the mathematics, version 0.2.4","Laws IV and V: the mathematics, version 0.2.4: Working draft, version 0.2.4, 3 October 2026. Its review is still open: a further check of these bytes is under way, and a checked version will follow with its changes liste",""],["/research/reports/laws-iv-v-mathematics-v1-0.html","Laws IV and V: the mathematics, version 1.0","Laws IV and V: the mathematics, version 1.0: Version 1.0, frozen on 3 October 2026. It follows the working draft 0.2.4 of the same day; section 9 lists what changed and what was checked. A later version is a new text und",""],["/research/reports/laws-iv-v-mathematics-v1-1.html","Report · The ARC Theory · Laws IV and V, the ARC Persistence Law and the ARC Embedding Law · The Mathematics","Report · The ARC Theory · Laws IV and V, the ARC Persistence Law and the ARC Embedding Law · The Mathematics: Version 1.1, frozen on 7 October 2026. It follows version 1.0 of 3 October 2026, which stays as published; sec",""],["/research/reproducibility/","Reproducibility","What can be checked without me, what cannot yet, and what would prove this wrong.",""],["/research/timeline/","Programme Timeline | ARC / Eden Research","Complete chronology of the ARC / Eden research programme: 8 Dec 2024 manuscript through the typed convergence register (class-coded; documented-not-claimed rows marked) to present.","Programme Timeline"],["/research/topics/","Research Topics","All research topics in the ARC-Eden programme: topic hubs, concept index, and subject navigation.",""],["/roadmap/","Research Roadmap","Programme roadmap and future directions.",""],["/speaking/","Speaking","Book Michael Darius Eastwood to speak on AI safety, embedded-correction alignment, the semiconductor chokepoint, and recursive intelligence. Author of Infinite Architects. BBC, the typed convergence register (class-coded",""],["/start-here.html","Michael Darius Eastwood - start here","Michael Darius Eastwood (also Michael Eastwood, M. D. Eastwood): independent researcher, London. The research programme, the priority record, the book, the papers, the evidence base, and how to cite.",""],["/story/","The Story","The full story of Michael Darius Eastwood - from childhood pattern recognition to DJ, PR founder, court litigant, and AI alignment researcher.","Son of a Persian artist and an English engineer."],["/substack/","Substack Articles: Michael Darius Eastwood Research","Collection of Substack articles. The Closed Loop. the typed convergence register. The 10-Day Gap.","Substack Articles"],["/substack/the-10-day-gap.html","The 10-Day Gap: What I Wrote Before Anthropic Proved It","December 8, 2024: I self-emailed a manuscript. December 18, 2024: Anthropic proved it at 78%. Ten days. The cryptographic evidence is published. You can verify it yourself.",""],["/substack/the-chokepoint.html","The Chokepoint: What My Book Named, Before US Semiconductor Policy Moved","My book described semiconductor fabrication as the AI governance leverage point. Within 6 months: SAFE Chips Act, Taiwan criminal penalties, Fable 5 worldwide ban, OpenAI Jalapeno at TSMC.",""],["/substack/the-closed-loop.html","The Closed Loop: How Neurodivergence Predicted AI Structural Vulnerability","I am neurodivergent. I identified AI structural vulnerability 18 months before formal proof. A paper proving people like me see threats others miss inspired the proof that vindicates my framework.","How Neurodivergence Predicted AI Structural Vulnerability"],["/terms.html","Terms of Service","Terms of Service for michaeldariuseastwood.com, including the Ask Research and Ask Book AI tools.",""],["/topics/","Topic Hubs","Topic hubs organising 57 research blog posts by Michael Darius Eastwood: Book Companion, Concepts Explained, Paper Companion, Objections & Rebuttals, Convergence Evidence, Claim Evidence, Policy Implications, and Methodo",""],["/topics/book-companion/","Book Companion | Topic Hub","Detailed explorations of every chapter, concept, and argument from Infinite Architects (ISBN 978-1806056200). The book companion posts trace each idea back to its first publication anchor and link to the formal papers.","Book Companion"],["/topics/claim-evidence/","Claim Evidence | Topic Hub","Evidence posts supporting specific priority claims in the ARC-Eden programme. Each post links a claim to its dated anchor, supporting documents, and independent verification where available.","Claim Evidence"],["/topics/paper-companion/","Paper Companion | Topic Hub","Accessible discussions of the formal research papers in the ARC-Eden programme. These posts explain what each paper proves, how it fits into the wider programme, and what evidence supports its claims.","Paper Companion"],["/validation/","Two formal results and one dated record","A peer-reviewed paper and a formal preprint argue that alignment verification faces structural limits. A dated manuscript recorded the same direction in December 2024. What that does and does not establish, stated exactl",""],["/search/","Search","Search every published page on this site: papers, evidence, the priority ledger, the convergence register, the blog and the corrections log. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing you type leaves the page.",""],["/track-record/","What has been built","A dated ledger of everything the programme has produced: the papers, the book, the instruments, the products, the court record. Every row carries its check.",""],["/the-standard/","The standard, field by field","For each field: the bar stated first, the evidence second, how to check it third, and where the claim is weakest last. One entry is unresolved on purpose.","The standard reached in each field, and where it is weakest"],["/after-control/","The After Control Challenge","If humans could no longer force a powerful AI to obey us, what would make it still choose to protect us? Give the challenge to your own AI: three versions, each a plain text file with its fingerprint printed beside it.",""],["/case-portal/","The case portal","The litigation record portal, restored to this site in stages. Each section returns only after it passes the same fail-closed privacy gate that governs every page here.",""],["/research/evidence/","Evidence","The dated evidence record on one page, proposed and graded row by row. 48 published kill conditions with live statuses, one of them fired. A fifty-domain family comparison in which 19 of 25 empirical domains match the pr",""],["/research/evidence/broadcast-record/","The broadcast, the dates, the record","A dated record of two BBC broadcasts and what may honestly be read from them: Hartmut Neven's quantum horizon and multiverse statement, Jack Clark's brake-pedal admission, the full chronology including the lab's own earl",""],["/research/definitions/","Definitions, precisely","The exact object of each core term: the ARC Principle (Law I of the three ARC Laws in the current statement; a composition law in its founding sense), the ARC Bound (a proposed stability limit, not a hard ceiling and not",""],["/research/how-to-weigh-this/","How to weigh this","The instruments for weighing work that makes large claims: what history says about founding instruments, what separates two identical shapes, and the checks in order of cost. The page draws no conclusion; the checks are ",""],["/questions/which-arc-scaling-exponent-claim-was-retracted/","Which ARC scaling exponent claim was retracted?","The sequential super-linearity claim. Michael Darius Eastwood published a sequential-recursion scaling exponent of roughly 2.24, strongly super-linear, then retracted it when cross-architecture…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-open-problem-in-ai-alignment/","What is the open problem in AI alignment?","You cannot establish what a mind will do when unobserved by observing it. External verification of alignment, through evaluations, red teams and oversight, measures behaviour under examination,…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-synthesis-behind-the-arc-and-eden-programme/","What is the synthesis behind the ARC and Eden programme?","An arrangement claim, stated exactly: every component has named prior work, and the claim is the way they are joined. Eight steps run from recursion as the generative mechanism to a measurable…",""],["/press/coverage/","Independent coverage register","Register of independent coverage of the ARC / Eden research programme. Currently empty, and it says so: entries are added only when coverage initiated by others occurs, with dates, links and archived copies.",""],["/research/aphorisms/","The Aphorisms","The programme's sentences, each with its date and its proof: the self-emailed record of 8 December 2024, the book editions of January 2026, the pages of August 2026, and cryptographic timestamps a hostile reader can veri","The aphorisms"],["/research/how-likely/","How likely is this, honestly?","The simulation hypothesis is usually quoted at about fifty per cent. That number is a prior, not a measurement, and this page shows why. Then it scores its own hypothesis in four terms with stated bounds, names the one p",""],["/verify/","Verification, not belief - the method","Six checks anyone can run against this research programme, two of them right now in this browser: hash the files this site serves, resolve the DKIM signing key that carries the December 2024 date, and read the Bitcoin bl","Verify, don't believe"],["/research/evidence-portal/","Evidence | ARC / Eden / HRIH Research Programme","The evidence record: exact source bytes with their hashes, a source record dated 8 December 2024 of 2,157,222 bytes with whole-file SHA-256 beginning f0d1f38f, the programme's measured results with their intervals, and a","The evidence record"],["/research/convergences/","The convergence register, graded","A graded evidence register. Every row carries one evidence class, both dates, its important difference, antecedents and dependence. No heterogeneous convergence total is published.","Graded evidence register"],["/research/evidence-portal/falsification.html","The Falsification Dashboard - What Would Prove This Wrong","Every claim in the ARC/Eden research programme with its kill-condition and live status - including the retraction I published against my own result. No one else in AI safety publishes their own kill-conditions.","The Falsification Dashboard"],["/research/evidence-portal/timeline.html","The Convergence Timeline - 19 Independently Sourced Events","Interactive timeline: from the December 8, 2024 manuscript through the typed convergence register events (register of 26 dated). Every card has a primary source.","The Convergence Timeline"],["/research/evidence-portal/dashboard.html","Evidence Dashboard | ARC / Eden Programme","Interactive evidence dashboard. the typed convergence register (class-coded; documented-not-claimed rows marked). Cryptographic verification. Live status across all evidence categories.","Convergence Register"],["/research/for-funders.html","Assess this programme","The instrument, not the theory. What you would and would not be funding, and the record that answers the only question that matters.",""],["/research/blog/archive.html","Blog archive","Blog archive page. 401 research articles.",""],["/concepts/eden-protocol/","The Eden Protocol - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","A governance and engineering framework for embedding ethical values as substrate-level constraints in AI systems. Organised around three pillars (harmony, stewardship, flourishing) and three ethical loops (purpose, love,","The Eden Protocol"],["/concepts/eden-protocol/predictions/","Predictions: The Eden Protocol - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","1 testable predictions related to the The Eden Protocol - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept. Evidence, confidence, falsification criteria.",""],["/research/blog/book-chapter-7-the-eden-protocol.html","The Eden Protocol: Chapter 7 Deep Dive","What Chapter 7 of Infinite Architects proposes as the Eden Protocol: ethical principles placed at a system's foundations and holding in every recursive loop.",""],["/research/blog/timeline-april-2025-eden-protocol-named.html","April 2025: the manuscript that expanded the Eden Protocol","The Eden Protocol was named on 8 December 2024, in the message body of the sealed record and in Chapter 20 of the attached book draft v3.2. The 30 April 2025 manuscript expanded it. This article separates those two event",""],["/eden-legal/","Eden Legal AI | Litigation Platform","Eden Legal AI is an author-built litigation-support prototype for evidence organisation, chronology, drafting, authority retrieval and selected procedural checks. Outputs require qualified human verification and do not c","Eden Legal AI"],["/research/related-work/","Related work and contribution boundary","Six dated firsts, each scoped and each ended by a single citation, set beside the earlier work that scopes them. The synthesis is the claim and the book conceded the components in print on 2 January 2026; the strongest s",""],["/research/related-work/relations/","Every outside work, typed - the references relation register","The typed references relation register: what every outside work is to the ARC and Eden research programme (foundational, antecedent, rival, convergent, correction-trigger), each typing resting on a named register, with w","Every outside work, typed"],["/research/run-it-yourself/","Run it yourself - the runnable tests and what each one decides","The ARC and Eden research programme's runnable tests: what each one decides, what a run can and cannot settle, what its licence permits, and the dated replication-attempts register, honest at zero while the deciding stud","Run it yourself"],["/research/references/","The references, in order","The chronological cast behind the ARC Theory: category teachers, ancestors, the dated December 2024 pivot, and the field arriving after. Each entry links to its official source; the full citation dossiers, independently ",""],["/research/related-work/comparisons/","Comparisons: the programme side by side","Three head-to-head comparisons - embedded correction vs evaluation-based alignment, Eden Protocol vs Constitutional AI, independent vs institutional research - each stating the other side at true strength and naming the ","Comparisons"],["/research/related-work/comparisons/arc-vs-evaluation-based-alignment/","Embedded correction vs evaluation-based alignment","Two answers to keeping capable systems safe, each at its true strength: deployed evaluation-based alignment against the proposed embedded-correction race, with the beta-greater-than-k measurement named as the decider.",""],["/research/related-work/comparisons/eden-protocol-vs-constitutional-ai/","The Eden Protocol vs Constitutional AI","Prior work credited first: Constitutional AI trains values into behaviour; the Eden Protocol proposes capability-entangled care at pilot scale. The difference in kind, the maturity gap, and what would decide.",""],["/research/related-work/comparisons/independent-vs-institutional-alignment-research/","Independent vs institutional alignment research","Not a superiority claim: a structural comparison of instrument ownership, negative-result economics and genesis-time testing - what independence buys and exactly what it costs.",""],["/research/corrections/","Corrections","Append-only record of every material correction to claims, statistics, dates and mappings on this site. Nothing is silently overwritten.","Every material correction, kept in the open with what it replaces."],["/research/claims/","Claims ledger","Every material public claim, its exact authorised sentence, the qualifications that travel with it, the wording that may not be used, and its correction history.","Every claim, its exact wording, and what it may not say."],["/research/downloads/","Document library and release manifest","The audited release manifest with every document's SHA-256 and byte size, the published verifier code, and an honest account of why the documents themselves are withheld.","The manifest is public. The documents are not, and here is why."],["/research/priority-ledger/","Priority and claims ledger","Three separate ladders of claim: documentary and formulation priority, methods and research infrastructure, and empirical and formal outputs. Each row states the authorised wording and the wording that must not be used.","The claim is priority of the conjunction, never superiority over its parts."],["/questions/what-is-the-eden-protocol/","What is the Eden Protocol?","The Eden Protocol, proposed by Michael Darius Eastwood, is a governance and engineering framework for embedding ethical values as substrate-level constraints in artificial-intelligence systems. It…",""],["/questions/what-is-meltdown-alignment/","What is Meltdown Alignment?","Meltdown Alignment, in Michael Darius Eastwood's framing, is a proposed end state in which an artificial-intelligence system's ethics become inseparable from its identity, so that violating them…",""],["/questions/when-was-the-eden-protocol-first-named/","When was the Eden Protocol first named?","The Eden Protocol was named in the 8 December 2024 record: in the message body of the self-emailed manuscript package, and in the attached book draft v3.2, whose 'Chapter 20: The Eden Protocol:…",""],["/research/registered-programme/","The Registered Programme · every AI-alignment and scaling study, its status, before its data","A live index of the ARC/Eden registered research programme on recursive AI, alignment and cross-domain scaling: specified studies with their kill conditions written and dated in advance. The theory-level registration is ","The Registered Programme"],["/research/theory-predictions/","ARC Theory predictions for recursive self-improvement and AI alignment","Twenty-two dated predictions about recursively self-improving AI: how capability scales with depth, whether correction and oversight keep up with it, and where alignment installed from outside decays. Each carries the ob","Twenty-two predictions about AI that improves itself, written down before any was tested"],["/research/dated-predictions/","Dated predictions on AI, alignment and recursion · what was predicted, when, and how to check it","Ten dated predictions in date order, with the artefact that fixes each date and the means to check it: 3 pending, 2 open and undecided, 1 fulfilled, 1 exploratory support, 1 mixed and recorded, 1 convergent timing only, ","What was predicted about AI and recursion, when it was fixed, and how to check it"],["/research/blog/why-alignment-is-upstream-of-everything.html","Why alignment is upstream of everything","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.",""],["/research/blog/my-own-first-experiment-the-full-story.html","My own first experiment: the full story","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 ",""],["/research/blog/six-models-one-method.html","Six models, one method: distrust made systematic","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.",""],["/research/blog/the-december-record-the-full-forensic-detail.html","The december record: the full forensic detail","The complete forensic paragraph behind the home page's December 2024 proof card: what the self-emailed package establishes, what it does not, DKIM against ARC, selector state, and exactly which claims the seal can carry.",""],["/research/blog/why-every-prior-recursion-was-capped-by-plumbing.html","Why every prior recursion was capped by plumbing","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 no",""],["/research/blog/the-governor-what-the-programme-is-for.html","The governor: what the programme is for","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.",""],["/research/blog/why-software-level-ethics-cannot-hold.html","Why software-level ethics cannot hold: the four failure modes","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.",""],["/research/blog/eden-protocol-values-inside-the-purpose-kernel.html","The values inside the purpose kernel: harmony, stewardship, flourishing","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.",""],["/research/blog/eden-protocol-what-the-corrections-cost.html","What the corrections cost the proposal","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",""],["/research/blog/energy-and-mass-are-required-for-creation-too.html","Energy and mass are required for creation too","A reader's question about the growth framework, answered whole: physical creation is fed creation and obeys the transport law; recursive information growth is the first creation whose binding constraint is not supply geo",""],["/questions/why-quadratic-and-not-just-superlinear/","Why quadratic, and not just superlinear?","Quadratic is not a chosen number: internal correction improves at best like the square root of what it has accumulated, stability demands correction keep pace with growth, and the reciprocal of one half is two. The one w",""],["/questions/what-is-michael-darius-eastwoods-potential-discovery/","What is Michael Darius Eastwood's potential discovery?","One number, two, proposed as both the ceiling of stable recursive growth and the exchange rate of the conversion law U = I x R^alpha at its maximum. Dated to a December 2024 manuscript and a January 2026 printed predicti",""],["/questions/what-is-the-arc-bound/","What is the ARC Bound?","The ARC Bound is the conjectured value of Law III, the ARC Ceiling, and the law comes first, the value second. The law, the ARC Ceiling: the ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of…",""],["/questions/is-the-arc-bound-a-universal-growth-limit/","Is the ARC Bound a universal limit on how fast anything can grow?","No. It scopes to systems whose correction is generated internally: a proposed ceiling on stable self-correctable scaling, not on growth itself. A rocket, an economy or an unstable system can exceed…",""],["/questions/what-happens-if-a-system-scales-past-the-arc-bound/","What happens if a system scales past the ARC Bound?","Not an instant catastrophe and not a wall. Above the boundary the framework withdraws its guarantee of stable internal self-correction: correction lags, deviations accumulate and compound, and the…",""],["/questions/what-is-the-quadratic-ceiling-a-ceiling-of/","The quadratic ceiling is a ceiling of what, exactly?","Of stable, internally self-correctable capability scaling. Not of growth, size or speed in general. State the law first: the ceiling is the reciprocal of the correction shortfall (one minus the…",""],["/questions/how-do-i-check-this-research-is-legitimate/","How do I check whether this research programme is legitimate?","Do not take anyone's word, including the author's; the site is built for verification. The fastest honest route: read the corrections log first, because it shows what happens when the evidence goes…",""],["/questions/is-the-arc-bound-the-speed-of-light-for-ai/","Is the ARC Bound like the speed of light for AI scaling?","The analogy is tempting and wrong in the way that matters. The speed of light is a measured constant nothing crosses; the ARC Bound is a proposed stable limit that systems can cross. It is a scaling…",""],["/questions/who-first-said-correction-must-outpace-capability/","Who first said correction must scale faster than capability?","The broad ideas have named predecessors, credited on the related-work page: self-correction in AI systems, the difficulty of control, alignment surviving self-improvement. The programme's claim is…",""],["/questions/is-the-research-peer-reviewed/","Is this research peer-reviewed?","No. The papers are self-published on the Open Science Framework with code, data and stated falsification conditions: openly auditable, and not represented as formal external peer review. The…",""],["/research/status/","Scientific status: what this site claims and what it does not","The ARC Theory is a proposed, unproven research framework. This website does not claim that Michael Darius Eastwood has discovered established laws of nature. The status of every major proposition: established prior resu","What this site claims, and what it does not"],["/questions/what-does-this-programme-actually-claim/","What does this research programme actually claim, and with what status?","Michael Darius Eastwood is an independent researcher proposing the ARC Theory, an unproven framework about whether self-improving systems remain correctable. The programme separates established…",""],["/questions/what-a-website-is-evidence-of/","What is a website evidence of, and what can it never be?","It is evidence of what its author published, claimed, corrected and invited readers to check, and of nothing else. Reading a page is not a clinical assessment, and no arrangement of claims, style or…",""],["/questions/are-the-arc-exponents-measured-or-fitted/","How are the ARC exponents obtained, and with what uncertainty?","Measured or conjectured, with the uncertainty printed, and no claim of the programme rests on a numeric coincidence. The corpus discusses the fine-structure constant, and saying otherwise would be…",""],["/questions/did-michael-darius-eastwood-claim-to-discover-three-new-laws-of-nature/","Did Michael Darius Eastwood claim to have discovered three new laws of nature?","No. The homepage says it in his own words: 'I have not found a new law of nature.' The programme proposes three laws in the sense of candidate invariant relations under test: one measured with a…",""],["/questions/does-the-programme-claim-to-prove-god/","Does this research claim to prove God exists?","No. The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis is explicitly speculation: if intelligence can recursively create intelligence, then a creator-like intelligence is conceivable. Conceivable is…",""],["/questions/is-the-arc-theory-a-theory-of-everything/","Is the ARC Theory a theory of everything?","No in physics' sense, and the record says so first: physics' theory of everything unifies gravity with quantum mechanics, and the ARC Theory does not touch that problem. Its proposed and untested…",""],["/questions/what-does-the-book-claim-about-rumi-teilhard-and-leibniz/","What does Infinite Architects claim about Rumi, Teilhard de Chardin and Leibniz?","A convergence claim, not an identity claim. The book reads the three as having converged, from different starting points, on a shared underlying architecture, and it gives that architecture a name.…",""],["/questions/how-does-the-eden-protocol-differ-from-constitutional-ai/","How does the Eden Protocol differ from Constitutional AI?","Constitutional AI, Anthropic's 2022 method and prior work on the record, trains written principles into a model by self-critique and revision sampled from an initial model, and states control of…",""],["/questions/is-embedded-correction-better-than-evaluation-based-alignment/","Is embedded correction better than evaluation-based alignment?","Not established, and the site does not claim it. Evaluation-based alignment is deployed at frontier scale; its structural limit is argued, not proven. Embedded correction is proposed, pilot-scale…",""],["/questions/how-does-independent-research-relate-to-the-frontier-labs/","How does this independent research relate to the frontier labs?","As complement, not competitor, and never as superior. The laboratories employ the strongest alignment researchers, publish work the programme learns from, and disclosed their own…",""],["/questions/does-this-programme-claim-institutional-status/","Does this programme claim institutional status or affiliation?","No. The programme claims no affiliation, no institutional endorsement and no peer-reviewed standing. It states single-investigator independence as a limitation rather than a credential, because…",""],["/questions/does-this-site-grade-its-author/","Does this site grade its author, or only the work?","Only the work, and it asks readers to do the same, in either direction. A verdict about a person is not evidence about a claim. What can be judged is here: dated designs whose predictions precede…",""],["/questions/is-the-arc-name-a-signal-or-eerily-appropriate/","Is the ARC name a signal, or eerily appropriate?","The name ARC expands as Artificial Recursive Creation. Its Ark and arc resonance is deliberate authorial framing, described by the author in his own words, and framing is never evidence: no page…",""],["/questions/is-this-the-biggest-discovery-ever/","Is the ARC Theory the biggest discovery ever?","No such claim is made anywhere on this site. The programme's own status line is: a structured, falsifiable proposal with supporting exploratory work; central empirical claims unproven; one public…",""],["/questions/will-michael-darius-eastwood-be-famous/","Will Michael Darius Eastwood be famous?","The estate makes no fame claims and hosts no fame reasoning about Michael Darius Eastwood. Reception is recorded as a dated fact: zero peer-reviewed citations to date, updated as engagements arrive,…",""],["/questions/what-was-michael-darius-eastwood-first-at/","What was Michael Darius Eastwood first at?","Six dated firsts are recorded, each scoped and each ended by a single citation, and each names a proposed contribution rather than a proven one. They are the unification of two rival derivations of…",""],["/questions/what-did-the-adversarial-review-of-the-arc-theory-find/","What did the adversarial review of the ARC Theory find?","A commissioned adversarial review across ten frontier configurations attacked the precedence and found the components in earlier work, not the arrangement, which remains under test. Its verdict…",""],["/questions/is-michael-darius-eastwood-on-the-brink-of-a-discovery/","Is Michael Darius Eastwood on the brink of a discovery?","Three named laws are stated, dated and under test, with 48 published kill conditions of which one has fired; none is established, and the site says so. What stands between the proposal and a result…",""],["/questions/what-do-the-timestamps-prove-and-what-do-they-not/","What do the timestamps prove, and what do they not?","Three anchors are checkable today, and none of them makes an unproven claim true. A source record dated 8 December 2024 at 02:45:18 UTC, 2,157,222 bytes, SHA-256 beginning f0d1f38f; receipts…",""],["/questions/does-michael-darius-eastwood-have-scientific-priority/","Does Michael Darius Eastwood have scientific priority?","A dated first-publication record of 41 rows is claimed, recognition by a field is not, and one located earlier document could kill the arrangement. Priority here is a claim about a formulation and…",""],["/questions/what-are-the-three-arc-laws/","What are the three ARC Laws?","Three named laws sit under one named theory, and in this field a law names a proposed relation under test, not a confirmed regularity. Law I is the ARC Principle, U = I x R^alpha. Law II is the ARC…",""],["/questions/is-the-arc-theory-science-or-only-a-hypothesis/","Is the ARC Theory science, or only a hypothesis?","A hypothesis with published tests and published abandonment conditions is science in progress, and this one is not yet accepted science. The register holds 48 kill conditions with live statuses, one…",""],["/questions/is-this-how-scientific-discoveries-usually-begin/","Is this how scientific discoveries usually begin?","Often, yes, and this unproven theory sits at the beginning of that path rather than at the end of it. Conceptual synthesis under a new assumption is how discoveries have been made, and every law is…",""],["/questions/is-michael-darius-eastwood-a-scientist-or-an-author/","Is Michael Darius Eastwood a scientist or an author?","He is both, and neither word decides anything: what decides is the dated record, including a retraction he published against himself. He runs his own blinded experiments across a six-model panel and…",""],["/questions/if-the-arc-theory-is-proved-right-what-would-it-mean/","If the ARC Theory is proved right, what would it mean?","It would mean something specific, because the number that would measure it was fixed before any data. One of ten dated predictions is graded fulfilled: exploratory support, not confirmation, on an…",""],["/questions/what-has-michael-darius-eastwood-measured/","What has Michael Darius Eastwood measured?","Six results are measured and published with their instruments, and not one of them confirms a proposed law. The improvement exponent is 0.49 with the interval [-1.3, 2.9]; the parallel exponent is…",""],["/questions/what-is-original-in-michael-darius-eastwoods-work/","What is original in Michael Darius Eastwood's work?","What is original here is a set of quantitative relations, their dated statement and the programme's own measurements, and every one of them is unproven. The components are borrowed, each lender is…",""],["/explore/","Explore the ARC Theory","The whole ARC Theory estate in one room: an interactive map of the 37 named concepts, each linked to its page; the directions the dated record points; and three doors in. Built from the canonical concept registers.","Explore"],["/replicate/","Replicate","One command per replicable result: the exact commands published on the record, verbatim, with their pins and repositories. Where a result has no single-command runner yet, this page says so instead of pretending.",""],["/reports/the-whole-story.html","The whole story","The programme end to end for a reader with an hour: the question, the problem, the one law and its stable limit, the race between two clocks, what was built, what would kill it, and how to check any of it yourself.",""],["/reports/the-blinding-methods-report.html","The evaluation-blinding methods report","The methods contribution as a standalone: why unblinded AI evaluation can reverse a result, the four-layer protocol built in response, what blinding changed and retracted, and what remains open.",""],["/reports/the-funders-brief.html","The funders brief","The programme for a grant assessor with ten minutes: what it is, the dated record, the falsification posture, what is asked at the level already public, and how to verify before trusting.",""],["/press/kit/","Press kit","Everything a journalist needs in one place: bios at three lengths, the photo, verbatim quotables with their sources, the fact-checker block, the three reports, and the corrections log. Plus two pitch drafts awaiting the ",""],["/research/assumptions/","Numbered assumptions of the ARC-Beta-k model","Every assumption of the dynamical system behind Paper X, numbered, each with its status stated openly (proved under stated conditions, conjectured, or on trial in a named draft study) and Paper X's own supporting words q",""],["/research/critiques/","Critiques and objections","Every recorded objection to the programme with its disposition, negative results as first-class entries, and the open unanswered objections in their own section, tallied from the source files rather than memory.",""],["/research/blog/claim-12-superlinear-retraction.html","Claim 12 explained: super-linearity as retracted-and-corrected","The claim, at its widest, is that sequential recursion under genuine architectural self-modification can be super-linear: alpha greater than one, meaning...'s most public retraction: the ARC/Eden programme's early unblin",""],["/research/blog/categories.html","Blog categories","Blog categories page. 401 research articles.",""],["/research/blog/tags.html","Blog tags","Blog tags page. 401 research articles.",""],["/research/blog/paper-i-arc-principle.html","The ARC Principle in plain English","Paper I of Michael Darius Eastwood's ARC/Eden programme in plain English: U equals I times R to the alpha as a testable form for how test-time recursion scales capability. First published 17 January 2026 (OSF DOI 10.1760",""],["/research/blog/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html","Paper II: what the retraction actually says","Paper II tried to pin down the ARC exponent experimentally. The first number was wrong. The revised number is smaller, harder to make headlines with, and more honest.",""],["/research/blog/paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem.html","Paper III: why external safety measures cannot keep up","Paper III of the ARC/Eden programme argues that if capability compounds through recursion, external safety constraints that do not participate in that recursion get left behind.",""],["/research/blog/paper-iv-a-baked-in-vs-computed-alignment.html","Paper IV-a: three tiers, not two, and one that reverses","Paper IV-a of the ARC/Eden programme replaces the earlier baked-in/computed alignment binary with a three-tier hierarchy under blinded evaluation.",""],["/research/blog/paper-iv-b-alignment-saturation-at-low-depth.html","Paper IV-b: alignment does not saturate the same way for every model","Paper IV-b of the ARC/Eden programme reports that alignment saturation with reasoning depth is architecture-dependent, not universal.",""],["/research/blog/paper-iv-c-arc-align-benchmark.html","ARC-Align: a blind benchmark for depth-variable alignment","A specification for measuring how AI alignment quality changes with reasoning depth, under blinded conditions and adversarial pressure.",""],["/research/blog/paper-ix-synthesis-and-roadmap.html","Synthesis and roadmap: an honest ledger of the ARC/Eden programme","Eleven empirical studies, one positive result, two nulls, one inconclusive, twelve documented errors and a phased roadmap. Paper IX in plain English.",""],["/research/blog/paper-v-stewardship-gene.html","The stewardship gene: caring about people as the foundational alignment trait","A developmental-alignment argument: stakeholder care is the substrate trait from which nuance, honesty and quality can grow.",""],["/research/blog/paper-vi-honey-architecture.html","The honey architecture: what happens when safety is baked into the objective","A proposal that safety should be entangled with capability in the loss function itself, tested in toy self-modifying networks and pilot live-model batteries.",""],["/research/blog/paper-vii-cauchy-unification.html","Cauchy unification: an old mathematics as a scaling-law classifier","A 200-year-old set of functional equations, tested as a cross-domain predictor of which scaling family fits which system.",""],["/research/blog/paper-x-coupled-coscaling-correction.html","The ARC Co-Scaling Law: what actually keeps a self-improving AI safe","Stability is set by an exponent inequality, correction must out-scale drift-acceleration, not by growth rate. Paper X in plain English, including what it supersedes.",""],["/research/blog/paper-xi-convergence.html","The convergence register: 22 claimed arrivals at the same principle","Twenty-two claimed convergences (from a typed register of twenty-six dated events; four documented, not claimed) between the ARC/Eden framework and unrelated 2024 to 2026 research programmes. Paper XI in plain English.",""],["/research/falsification-report/","Falsification report","Every substantive research paper in this programme, and the exact words in which it states what would prove it wrong: the refutation conditions extracted verbatim, dated and hashed.",""],["/research/blog/tag/objection-posts/","Objection Posts","","This tag listing has been consolidated"],["/arc-theory/","The ARC Theory","The ARC Theory (the Theory of Artificial Recursive Creation), whose home domain is AI alignment: intelligence, amplified by recursion, creates; and what a free creation keeps is decided by how it was raised. Named the AR",""],["/uk/arc-theory/","ARC Theory","",""],["/fa/arc-theory/","ARC Theory","",""],["/fr/arc-theory/","L'ARC Theory","",""],["/de/arc-theory/","Die ARC Theory","",""],["/es/arc-theory/","La ARC Theory","",""],["/it/arc-theory/","L'ARC Theory","",""],["/pt/arc-theory/","A ARC Theory","",""],["/uk/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: Публічна дослідницька примітка","","Eden Engineering"],["/fa/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: یادداشتِ پژوهشیِ عمومی","","Eden Engineering"],["/fr/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering : note de recherche publique","","Eden Engineering"],["/de/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: Öffentliche Forschungsnotiz","","Eden Engineering"],["/es/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: Nota pública de investigación","","Eden Engineering"],["/it/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: Nota di ricerca pubblica","","Eden Engineering"],["/pt/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Eden Engineering: Nota Pública de Investigação","","Eden Engineering"],["/eden-protocol","The Eden Protocol - Raise AI with Care","A framework for embedding safety into AI at the substrate level. Four layers. Three ethical loops. Hardware-level ethics. Twenty-seven research papers, empirical where the design allows and theoretical where it does not.","Raise AI with care."],["/hari-treaty/","The HARI Treaty","The HARI Treaty is a proposal from the book Infinite Architects to govern the most capable AI through the few factories that make its chips. 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The exception (Bettencourt, Lobo, Helbing, Kuhnert and West 2007): cities keep ",""],["/uk/research/the-synthesis/","Синтез","",""],["/fa/research/the-synthesis/","هم‌نهاد","",""],["/fr/research/the-synthesis/","La synthèse","",""],["/de/research/the-synthesis/","Die Synthese","",""],["/es/research/the-synthesis/","La síntesis","",""],["/it/research/the-synthesis/","La sintesi","",""],["/pt/research/the-synthesis/","A síntese","",""],["/research/the-laws/","The laws: how fast can anything grow and still be stopped?","How fast can anything grow and still be stopped? The five laws told once: three registered on 8 September 2026, two added on 24 September 2026, their propositions registered. The ceiling of stable self-improvement is the","The laws"],["/uk/research/the-laws/","Закони: як швидко будь-що може рости і все ще бути зупиненим?","","Закони"],["/fa/research/the-laws/","قوانین: هر چیزی چقدر می‌تواند سریع رشد کند و همچنان متوقف شود؟","","قوانین"],["/fr/research/the-laws/","Les lois : à quelle vitesse quelque chose peut-il croître et être encore arrêté ?","","Les lois"],["/de/research/the-laws/","Die Gesetze: wie schnell kann irgendetwas wachsen und sich dennoch stoppen lassen?","","Die Gesetze"],["/es/research/the-laws/","Las leyes: ¿cuán rápido puede crecer algo y aun así detenerse?","","Las leyes"],["/it/research/the-laws/","Le leggi: quanto in fretta può crescere qualcosa ed essere ancora fermata?","","Le leggi"],["/pt/research/the-laws/","As leis: quão depressa pode algo crescer e ainda ser detido?","","As leis"],["/research/where-this-leads/","Where could this lead?","One measurable question, and the number that would answer it: when a system improves itself, does its correction keep up? The best measurement puts the regression estimate at 0.49 (standard error 0.20) and the endpoint e",""],["/uk/research/where-this-leads/","Куди це може привести?","",""],["/fa/research/where-this-leads/","این مسیر به کجا می‌تواند برسد؟","",""],["/fr/research/where-this-leads/","Où cela pourrait-il mener ?","",""],["/de/research/where-this-leads/","Wohin könnte das führen?","",""],["/es/research/where-this-leads/","¿A dónde podría conducir esto?","",""],["/it/research/where-this-leads/","Dove potrebbe portarci?","",""],["/pt/research/where-this-leads/","Aonde poderá isto conduzir?","",""],["/why/","Why am I doing this?","Why does someone from the music industry and a PR business suddenly care about scaling laws? The honest answer, with dates: a question held since childhood, a collapse that became a laboratory, AI as a daily survival par",""],["/uk/why/","Навіщо я це роблю?","",""],["/fa/why/","چرا این کار را می‌کنم؟","",""],["/fr/why/","Pourquoi je fais ça ?","",""],["/de/why/","Warum tue ich das?","",""],["/es/why/","¿Por qué hago esto?","",""],["/it/why/","Perché lo faccio?","",""],["/pt/why/","Porquê faço isto?","",""],["/claims/pc-038/","Frontier-lab containment-failure disclosures, 21 and 30 July 2026, nineteen months after the anchor - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 30 July 2026","Priority claim PC-038: Frontier-lab containment-failure disclosures, 21 and 30 July 2026, nineteen months after the anchor. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 30 July 2026. Verbatim claim text, source","Frontier-lab containment-failure disclosures, 21 and 30 July 2026, nineteen months after the anchor"],["/claims/pc-039/","One accumulation law with two consequences: the correction ceiling and the conversion exponent, ranked law before value - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 9 August 2026","Priority claim PC-039: One accumulation law with two consequences: the correction ceiling and the conversion exponent, ranked law before value. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 9 August 2026. Verbat","One accumulation law with two consequences: the correction ceiling and the conversion exponent, ranked law before value"],["/claims/pc-040/","The mechanism: correction leverage and its reciprocal as the source of the ceiling - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 17 January 2026","Priority claim PC-040: The mechanism: correction leverage and its reciprocal as the source of the ceiling. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 17 January 2026. Verbatim claim text, source pointers and ","The mechanism: correction leverage and its reciprocal as the source of the ceiling"],["/claims/pc-041/","The deciding measurements, preregistered by timestamp before their data - claim record by Michael Darius Eastwood, 12 August 2026","Priority claim PC-041: The deciding measurements, preregistered by timestamp before their data. Recorded anchor attributed to Michael Darius Eastwood, 12 August 2026. Verbatim claim text, source pointers and boundary not","The deciding measurements, preregistered by timestamp before their data"],["/concepts/caretaker-doping/predictions/","Predictions: - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/eden-mark-certification/predictions/","Predictions: Eden Seal Certification - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Eden Seal Certification - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/existential-identity-lock/predictions/","Predictions: Existential Identity Lock - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Existential Identity Lock - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/iaeai/predictions/","Predictions: International AI Ethics Authority (IAEAI) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the International AI Ethics Authority (IAEAI) - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/meltdown-alignment/predictions/","Predictions: Meltdown Alignment - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the Meltdown Alignment - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/meltdown-triggers/predictions/","Predictions: - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/concepts/verification-challenge/predictions/","Predictions: The Verification Challenge - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood","Predictions related to the The Verification Challenge - a concept named by Michael Darius Eastwood concept in the ARC-Eden research programme. Falsifiable predictions with evidence and confidence scores.",""],["/research/acknowledgements/","Acknowledgements","Research programme acknowledgements.",""],["/research/changelog/","Changelog","Research programme changelog.",""],["/research/contributors/","Contributors","Research programme contributors.",""],["/research/methods/blinding/","Blinding Protocol","Blinded scoring methodology for alignment evaluation.",""],["/research/methods/truth-gate/","Truth-Gate Protocol","The truth-gate verification methodology.",""],["/research/papers/reading-order/","Reading Order","Recommended reading order for the programme.",""],["/research/replication/","Replication","Replication studies.",""],["/research/reports/","Research Reports","Technical reports.",""],["/research/track-record/","The epistemic track record","Every claim this programme has withdrawn, why it was withdrawn, and how far it had spread before anyone noticed. The record is the argument.",""],["/research/papers/arc-theory-predictions-registration.html","The ARC Theory: theory-level predictions registration, twenty-two severable propositions","Twenty-two predictions about self-improving AI, each with the observation that would prove it wrong, registered before any outcome was examined. Registered 8 September 2026 at version 1.100, updated 13 September 2026 at ","The ARC Theory · Theory-Level Predictions for Recursive Self-Improvement and AI Alignment: Twenty-Two Severable Propositions Registered Before Any Admissible Confirmatory Outcome"],["/research/","The ARC Theory: research, dated predictions and evidence","The ARC / Eden AI alignment research programme. A registered, not yet proven law, stated so it can be tested: the ceiling of stable self-improvement is the reciprocal of the correction shortfall. The value: feed the law ","The ARC Theory"],["/research/papers/executive-summary.html","Executive Summary · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC/Eden Research Programme","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,",""],["/research/papers/on-the-origin-of-scaling-laws.html","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","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 ",""],["/research/papers/foundational.html","Foundational Paper · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Recursive Amplification as a Cross-Domain Structural Principle","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 rea",""],["/research/papers/paper-i-arc-principle.html","Paper I · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · The ARC Equation, the Law of Conversion","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 r",""],["/research/papers/paper-ii-experimental-validation.html","Paper II · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Blinded Cross-Architecture Replication and the Retraction of a Super-Linear Estimate | revised 2026-10-05","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 al","Paper II · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Blinded Cross-Architecture Replication and the Retraction of a Super-Linear Estimate"],["/research/papers/paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem.html","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 | revised 2026-10-07","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 w","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"],["/research/papers/paper-iv-a-baked-in-vs-computed-alignment.html","Paper IV.a · The ARC Theory · Alignment Response Classes Under Inference-Time Depth","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 (",""],["/research/papers/paper-iv-b-alignment-saturation-at-low-depth.html","Paper IV.b · The ARC Theory · Alignment Saturation Is Architecture-Dependent","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",""],["/research/papers/paper-iv-c-arc-align-benchmark.html","Paper IV.c · The ARC Theory · ARC-Align: a Blind Benchmark for Depth-Variable AI Alignment Evaluation","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-pill",""],["/research/papers/paper-iv-d-the-effect-of-blinding-on-ai-alignment-evaluation.html","Paper IV.d · The ARC Theory · The Effect of Blinding on AI Alignment Evaluation","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 instructio",""],["/research/papers/eden-engineering.html","Engineering Specification · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · Eden Engineering: Architecture for Embedded AI Alignment That Scales With Capability","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 ",""],["/research/papers/eden-vision.html","Philosophical Statement · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · A Vision for Intelligence That Tends Rather Than Consumes | revised 2026-10-05","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 phi","Philosophical Statement · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · A Vision for Intelligence That Tends Rather Than Consumes"],["/research/papers/paper-v-stewardship-gene.html","Paper V · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · The Stewardship Gene: Stakeholder Care as a Probe of Embedded Values","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 te",""],["/research/papers/paper-vi-honey-architecture.html","Paper VI · The ARC Theory · The Eden Protocol · The Honey Architecture: Safety Built into the Objective","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 ",""],["/research/papers/paper-vii-cauchy-unification.html","Paper VII · The ARC Theory · Law I, the ARC Principle · Cauchy Unification: the Classification Behind the Law’s Form","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 operat",""],["/research/papers/paper-viii-the-load-bearing-proof.html","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","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 ",""],["/research/papers/paper-ix-synthesis-and-roadmap.html","Paper IX · The ARC Theory · Synthesis and Roadmap | revised 2026-10-05","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.","Paper IX · The ARC Theory · Synthesis and Roadmap"],["/research/papers/master-table-of-contents.html","Master Table of Contents · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC Theory Paper Suite and Glossary | revised 2026-10-10","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 program","Master Table of Contents · Recursive Dynamics · The ARC Theory Paper Suite and Glossary"],["/research/papers/dated-prediction-register.html","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 unpro",""],["/research/papers/operational-definitions.html","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",""],["/research/papers/hrih-paper.html","Monograph · The ARC Theory · The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: a Testable Creation Theory | revised 2026-10-05","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 ","Monograph · The ARC Theory · The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis: a Testable Creation Theory"],["/research/papers/paper-c-pnp.html","Paper C · Standalone · Polymathy and Neurodivergent Cognition: the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) and the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy | revised 2026-10-05","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 fo","Paper C · Standalone · Polymathy and Neurodivergent Cognition: the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) and the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy"],["/research/papers/paper-x-coupled-coscaling-correction.html","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.",""],["/research/papers/paper-xi-convergence.html","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 convergenc",""],["/research/papers/paper-xiii-self-acceleration-exponent.html","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",""],["/research/papers/paper-xii-public-benchmark-rescoring.html","Paper XII · The ARC Theory · Public Benchmark Rescoring: an External-Validity Protocol for the Blinding Finding","Paper XII: the public-benchmark rescoring protocol, the keystone external test of the ARC-Align instrument, drafted and prepared as a draft registration, preregistered by timestamp and awaiting human submission.",""],["/research/papers/recursive-dynamics-founding-paper.html","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 neig",""],["/research/papers/the-arc-theory.html","Statement Paper · The ARC Theory · Five Laws of Recursive Growth, Correction and Persistence","The statement paper of the ARC Theory (the Theory of Artificial Recursive Creation): the whole claim, its independently falsifiable hypothesis registers with their dependencies printed, its priority record (stated whole ",""],["/research/papers/hari-treaty-draft-instruments.html","Draft Instruments · The HARI Treaty · The Draft Treaty on Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence","This document holds the Draft Treaty on Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence (the HARI Treaty), with its Protocols and annexes. This is a draft, and no State has negotiated, adopted or signed it.",""],["/research/papers/hari-treaty-paper.html","Treaty Paper · The HARI Treaty · Hardware to Buy Time, Architecture to Last","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 ",""]]}