Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher
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Willow: first below-threshold QEC, Λ=2.14±0.02.
Willow matters to this register for a different reason than most entries. The below-threshold result was expected by the field for three decades, so the convergence claim here is deliberately modest: common prior art, one day apart, no prediction asserted. What makes it registrable at all is the structural role that quantum error correction plays in the manuscript: recursive error suppression as the condition for stable scaling. Willow demonstrated exactly that shape empirically, in hardware, the day after the manuscript described it as the governing pattern for recursive systems generally.
The honest classification is convergent timing on shared foundations, and the register marks it as such rather than inflating it.
Open the primary source above. Confirm the date. Confirm the finding. Then compare it against the manuscript passage or artifact named in the register entry, whose SHA-256 hash is published on the evidence page. Nothing in this article asks for trust; the entry either survives that comparison or it comes off the register, publicly, the way the programme's retracted scaling figure did.
From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.