Research Notes

The convergence series

These posts predate the current graded evidence register. Several of the events they describe have since been reclassified, some to prior work that predates the December 2024 anchor, and no convergence total is published anywhere on this site. The current classification of every row is at /research/convergences/.

The Public Claims Explained (17)

• Claim 12 explained: super-linearity as retracted-and-corrected

Public Concept Glossary (10)

The Papers in Plain English (22)

• Eden Engineering: public research note
• The Eden Protocol vision in plain English
• The programme executive summary in plain English
• The ARC Principle in plain English
• The ARC Principle in plain English
• Paper II: what the retraction actually says
• Paper III: why external safety measures cannot keep up
• Paper IV-a: three tiers, not two, and one that reverses
• Paper IV-b: alignment does not saturate the same way for every model
• ARC-Align: a blind benchmark for depth-variable alignment
• When blinding flips the sign: why alignment scores need clinical-trial controls
• Synthesis and roadmap: an honest ledger of the ARC/Eden programme
• The paper suite: a reading order
• The stewardship gene: caring about people as the foundational alignment trait
• The honey architecture: what happens when safety is baked into the objective
• Cauchy unification: an old mathematics as a scaling-law classifier
• The load-bearing test: what really survived the Eden Protocol tests
• The ARC Co-Scaling Law: what actually keeps a self-improving AI safe
• The convergence register, before the regrade: kept as history

Methodology (14)

Objections Answered (17)

Timeline Deep-Dives (10)

• The night of 8 December 2024: what the manuscript actually said
• April 2025: the manuscript that first named the Eden Protocol

The ARC-Beta-k Measurement Programme (8)

Neurodivergence and Research (11)

Hardware and Policy (14)

Book Companion: Infinite Architects (44)

• The book's treatment of Bostrom and the simulation hypothesis
• Caretaker doping: the load-bearing architecture idea
• Cosmic and fine-tuning
• What the book says about DeepSeek and the acceleration
• The Eden Mark: certification with teeth
• Graduated autonomy: earning capability by demonstrating orientation
• Love as architecture: the book's central reframing
• The monitoring-removal test: what changes when the observer looks away
• The parent watching the child walk away
• The Purpose Kernel: the core of the Purpose Loop
• The Purpose, Love and Moral Loops in depth
• The Stewardship Gene: a biological analogy for hereditary caretaker orientation
• The Ark and the Arc: ARC as vessel of stewardship
• The caretaker's greenhouse: the coral reef passage
• The HARI Treaty proposal
• The Three Pillars: Harmony, Stewardship, Flourishing
• The tower that collapsed under its own incoherence
• The Vow: reading the Orchard Caretaker's statement
• The Willow passages: what the book actually says
• Three Polymaths: Rumi, Teilhard, Leibniz
• U = I x R^2: the book's presentation of the equation
• What the book says about alignment faking