Michael Darius Eastwood

Everything on this site serves one bet: that whether artificial minds stay correctable can be measured, not just argued about. This page is who is making that bet, and how to cite him. This is the canonical author page for Michael Darius Eastwood. It carries the record that binds the name to the work: the biography, the papers, the priority anchors, the concept index, the claims register and how to cite. If you arrived here from a search or a citation and want to confirm that the various byline forms refer to the same person, this page is the answer. Everything else on the site derives from what this page says.

About

Michael Darius Eastwood is an independent researcher and author based in London, proposing the ARC Theory: a dated research record from 8 December 2024, twenty-six research papers among twenty-seven public OSF components, an improvement exponent measured at 0.49 inside the interval [−1.3, 2.9] under a blinded six-model protocol, and one retraction published against himself. None of it is peer-reviewed and none of it has been replicated outside his own laboratory. Two decades building systems in the music industry taught him how recursive amplification actually behaves in the wild - how positive feedback loops compound, why the shape of a system determines its trajectory, and how small structural choices propagate into large outcomes over time. During those years he placed his clients in Rolling Stone, The Times and the BBC. The pattern he saw there sits underneath everything he writes now.

His research programme, the ARC / Eden research programme, formalises the observation that measurable capability grows as a product of input intelligence and recursive depth, with the exponent set by the shape of the recursion rather than fixed by fiat. The programme is anchored in a self-emailed manuscript from 8 December 2024 (SHA-256 prefix f0d1f38f) that first placed the embedded-correction alignment thesis on the public record, and in the 30 April 2025 manuscript (SHA-256 prefix 09f5b5e1) that first named the Eden Protocol. Both anchors are archived as ARC-sealed recipient-form records with OpenTimestamps receipts anchored 6 August 2026.

He is the author of Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (ISBN 978-1806056200, paperback published 2 January 2026; ISBN 979-8302196163, ebook edition published 6 January 2026), and the principal investigator on the ARC / Eden research programme (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB). He has represented himself in complex legal proceedings as a litigant-in-person, and that experience feeds the design of the practical work adjacent to the research programme.

The book

The papers

Twenty-six papers sit under the ARC / Eden research programme (OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB), all published. Papers I to III and the foundational cross-domain paper are the recommended reading order; the master table of contents is the map of the whole set. Three companion documents (Eden Engineering, Eden Vision and the executive summary) were withdrawn on 14 July 2026 pending disclosure review, with withdrawal notices at their canonical addresses.

• Paper I - The ARC Principle
• Paper II - Experimental validation
• Paper III - The Alignment Scaling Problem
• Foundational cross-domain paper
• Paper IV.a - Baked-in vs computed alignment
• Paper IV.b - Alignment saturation at low depth
• Paper IV.c - ARC-Align benchmark
• Paper IV.d - The effect of blinding on AI alignment evaluation
• Paper V - Stewardship gene
• Paper VI - Honey architecture
• Paper VII - Cauchy unification
• Paper VIII - The load-bearing test
• Paper IX - Synthesis and roadmap
• Paper X - Coupled co-scaling correction
• Paper XI - Convergence
• Paper C - the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile
• On the origin of scaling laws
• HRIH paper
• Eden Engineering (withdrawn 14 July 2026)
• Eden Vision (withdrawn 14 July 2026)
• Executive summary (withdrawn 14 July 2026)
• Master table of contents

The priority record

The originality of the programme is anchored on a small number of dated artefacts. Each artefact carries a date, a hash, and where possible a downloadable primary source, so any reader can check the dates without trusting the author.

Full priority chain (human-readable): /research/priority/. Machine-readable priority register: /research/priority.json. Public priority and claims ledger (41 individually dated entries): /priority-claims.

Concept index and claims register

The programme names, defines and dates its concepts on a per-concept basis. The concept index and the claims ledger are the two entry points readers most often want:

• Concept atlas. Named concepts across the programme, cross-linked to their first appearance and to the papers that discuss them.
• Priority and claims ledger. Forty-one individually dated claim entries, each with first date, evidence pointers and honest risk notes.
• Intellectual priority record. Human-readable priority chain with per-artefact evidence.
• Start here. Five-minute map of the whole programme for first-time readers.
• Predictions register. A holding page: the twelve early records are withdrawn; registered predictions now live in the registered programme.
• Methods notes. Truth-gate, anti-sycophancy, honey dashboard and ARC-Align test protocol.
• Proof room. Working proofs and formal derivations.

Contact and citation guidance

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Author identifiers: ORCID 0009-0004-3222-7442. OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB. Wikidata Q140775170. The canonical Person URL is https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/; the canonical author page is this page, https://www.michaeldariuseastwood.com/michael-darius-eastwood/. Media, review and research correspondence go via the press kit page.