8 December 2024 self-emailed manuscript as earliest timestamped anchor

The claim - verbatim

Michael Darius Eastwood first placed the embedded-correction alignment thesis under its specific named framing, an early U = I x R capability-scaling formulation, and the AI-control-failure passage on the public evidentiary record via a self-sent Gmail package bearing a visible Gmail origination field of 02:45:18 UTC on 8 December 2024, with sender-DKIM and paired Google ARC mathematics verifying against keys captured at the signed selectors, its time signed by the sending server and sealed by Google's servers (DKIM, 02:45:30 UTC; Google's ARC seal, 02:45:31 UTC), Message-ID CAGPsKAnp-DLDBOeBAh4t9XsqJBKdoe07uORGF86meoSMFnin7w, 221,236 words across five attachments (four text essays totalling 221,236 words (five attachments) plus the 31,881-word book draft v3.2), SHA-256 anchor prefix f0d1f38f. This is an existence-by-date anchor, not a cryptographic authorship claim.

Anchored evidence

• the sealed source .eml (held privately, hash-anchored, source on request; published SHA-256 f0d1f38f…) (Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 02:45:18 +0000; Message-ID CAGPsKAnp-DLDBOeBAh4t9XsqJBKdoe07uORGF86meoSMFnin7w)
• research/priority.json priorityChain position 1 (dateType 'Gmail server timestamp on self-sent email carrying the manuscript'; sha256 prefix f0d1f38f)
• research/evidence-spine.html verified rows for 8 Dec 2024 (V2 lines 6 and 9 for the ARC Hypothesis name, the U = I x R equation at V2 line 9, the first of thirteen occurrences in Version 2, every one written U = IR without an exponent (line 495 is the fifth); HRIH line 14005 for control-failure; V2 lines 20 and 40 for embedded-alignment thesis)
• research/blog/timeline-8-december-2024-manuscript.html (Artifact A1 fact box: timestamp 2024-12-08T02:45:18Z, word count 221,236 (four manuscripts 189,355), Message-ID)

Limits and citation guidance - what this claim does not support, and how to cite it

Limits. visible Gmail origination fields establishes existence-by-date, not DKIM-authenticated authorship. The manuscript identifies structural directions, not specific RL-training or experimental mechanisms. State which artefact is meant: the sent-side export preserves no authentication headers, while the recipient-form object carries sender-DKIM and Google ARC fields whose signature mathematics verify under the keys returned at the selectors on the audit date. When quoting Google's recorded verdict, quote the ARC-sealed ARC-Authentication-Results header, never the unsealed Authentication-Results. Existence by date only, not authorship: the time is signed by the sending server and sealed by Google’s servers, both verified against the keys their selectors returned on the audit date.