April 2025: the manuscript that first named the Eden Protocol
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Michael Darius Eastwood's 30 April 2025 book manuscript: 562 pages, 140,406 words, SHA-256 prefix 09f5b5e1. Where the Eden Protocol,  and the Babylon and Eden framing first appear by name. Precedence separated from the December 2024 thesis manuscript.

Canonical path: /research/blog/timeline-april-2025-eden-protocol-named.html
Author: Michael Darius Eastwood
Research programme: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/6C5XB

April 2025: the manuscript that first named the Eden Protocol Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher Published 3 July 2026 Michael Darius Eastwood · Timeline · 3 July 2026 Michael Darius Eastwood, independent researcher, London: author of the ARC/Eden research programme; the embedded-correction alignment thesis is recorded in a source record dated 8 December 2024 (sent-side SHA-256 f0d1f38f). The embedded-alignment thesis was stated on 8 December 2024. The name Eden Protocol first appears in the 30 April 2025 manuscript. This article separates those two events, because conflating them would misrepresent the record and because the truth gate would catch the conflation before publication anyway. Artefact A2, evidence-linked. First named (Eden Protocol): 30 April 2025. A 562-page book manuscript, 140,406 words, self-emailed. SHA-256 anchor prefix 09f5b5e1. Babylon appears 106 times, Eden as a whole word 552 times, across 80 pages containing Babylon and 60 pages containing both. Counts by case-insensitive regex over PyPDF2-extracted text; the exact command is published in the truth gate documentation. Evidence: /priority-evidence.html (30 April 2025 rows) · /research/priority.json (priorityChain position 2). What was named that was not named before Four names appear here for the first time. The Eden Protocol, the substrate-level embedding proposal., the compensatory-reward architecture., the deadman-switch class that the September 2025 hardware paper by Petrie later mirrored independently. And the Babylon and Eden civilisational framing, the fork the Vatican encyclical would independently mirror in May 2026 as Babel and Jerusalem. Why the two artefacts are separated in the register Priority on the direction of travel goes to the December 2024 manuscript, whose language names the failure class without naming the fix. Priority on the naming, the framing and the specific hardware and compensation architectures goes to the April 2025 manuscript. When any article on this site cites the Eden Protocol, it does so as "the embedded-alignment thesis (December 2024), later named the Eden Protocol (April 2025 manuscript)." That is the house rule, and it is enforced automatically.

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Machine-readable companion. Cite: Eastwood, M. D. (2026). "April 2025: the manuscript that first named the Eden Protocol". /research/blog/timeline-april-2025-eden-protocol-named.html