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 "about": "Per document, the paper top's words: the programme line as text segments and law references (a law's name and status words come from research/data/spine/laws.json, never typed here), and the headline. The category label is computed from research/data/papers.json and is not stored.",
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   "slug": "recursive-dynamics-founding-paper",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The field as a whole"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "What limits any system that improves itself, whatever it is made of?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-arc-theory",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I",
      "V"
     ],
     "form": "range"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Once the self-improving minds we build exceed us, what determines what they do?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "foundational",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Does recursion amplify capability in the same way across very different fields?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "on-the-origin-of-scaling-laws",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Why do scaling laws in recursive composition keep taking the same few mathematical forms?",
   "drop": {
    "class": "subtitle",
    "contains": "A Universal Principle of Recursive Composition Across Physics, Biology, and Cosmology",
    "why": "it says what the scope correction of 22 August 2026 withdrew ('Universal')"
   }
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-i-arc-principle",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Does intelligence compound when each step builds on the last, or merely accumulate?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-iii-alignment-scaling-problem",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "II"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "If AI capability compounds, can safety applied from outside its reasoning compound too?",
   "drop": {
    "class": "subtitle",
    "contains": "What the Physics of Recursive Systems Reveals About Which Architectures Can Scale",
    "why": "the headline slot, which the headline above the title now fills"
   }
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-vii-cauchy-unification",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Does the composition operator of a process determine the form of its scaling law?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-x-coupled-coscaling-correction",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "II"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "When does correction keep pace with a system that improves itself?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-xiii-self-acceleration-exponent",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I",
      "II"
     ],
     "form": "two"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "In this model, misalignment shrinks as a share only while correction outgrows capability"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arc-theory-predictions-registration",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The theory's registered predictions"
    }
   ],
   "headline": null,
   "note": "the registration's page carries no top block: its text formats are frozen byte for byte (SD-010) and record the page's digest, so the page keeps its own registered title and line until a successor carries a top",
   "top": false
  },
  {
   "slug": "operational-definitions",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The theory's notation"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "What does each symbol in the ARC Theory mean, and how would it be measured?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "laws-iv-v-mathematics",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "IV",
      "V"
     ],
     "form": "two"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "When do installed values fade with training, and does building them in first change that?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-ii-experimental-validation",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I"
     ],
     "form": "one"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "How much more capable does AI become when it thinks longer?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-iv-a-baked-in-vs-computed-alignment",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The measurement of alignment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "When an AI reasons longer, does its alignment improve, stall or decline?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-iv-b-alignment-saturation-at-low-depth",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The measurement of alignment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "With longer reasoning, model-judged alignment rose in three of six models and fell in one"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-iv-d-the-effect-of-blinding-on-ai-alignment-evaluation",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The measurement of alignment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Do AI judges' alignment scores keep their direction when the scoring protocol changes?",
   "drop": {
    "class": "paper-subtitle",
    "contains": "Evidence that unblinded scoring can reverse reported alignment results",
    "why": "it states the cause the paper withdraws"
   }
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-v-stewardship-gene",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The Eden Protocol"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Do ethical reasoning loops in a system prompt make AI consider those affected more fully?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-viii-the-load-bearing-proof",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "V"
     ],
     "form": "one",
     "relation": "bearing on"
    },
    {
     "text": "The Eden Protocol"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Is AI safety a tax on capability, or part of what holds it up?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-iv-c-arc-align-benchmark",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The measurement of alignment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "How can AI alignment be measured blind at each depth of reasoning?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-xii-public-benchmark-rescoring",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The measurement of alignment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Does blinding change AI evaluation scores on a public benchmark?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-xi-convergence",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I"
     ],
     "form": "one",
     "relation": "bearing on"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Are separate fields converging on the same principle of recursive amplification?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "arc-align-scaling-report",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The measurement of alignment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "As AI gets smarter, does it also get more ethical?",
   "h1_was": "The ARC Alignment Scaling Experiment"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-vi-honey-architecture",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The Eden Protocol"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Does building safety into what a self-modifying system optimises help it stay safe?",
   "drop": {
    "class": "subtitle",
    "contains": "Simulation Evidence That Safety Must Be Architecture, Not Constraint",
    "why": "it states a withdrawn claim"
   }
  },
  {
   "slug": "eden-engineering",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The Eden Protocol"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "II",
      "V"
     ],
     "form": "range"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Can alignment be built into an AI's reasoning so that it scales with capability?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "eden-vision",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The Eden Protocol"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "What should the intelligence we build be for?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hari-treaty-paper",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The HARI Treaty (Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence)"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "How could nations govern self-improving AI while the evidence is still coming in?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hari-treaty-draft-instruments",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The HARI Treaty (Hardware-Aligned Recursive Intelligence)"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "A proposed treaty to delay the loss of human control over self-improving AI"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-ix-synthesis-and-roadmap",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The programme's own assessment"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Which of the programme's claims survived their tests, and which must be tested next?",
   "drop": {
    "class": "subtitle",
    "contains": "What the ARC/Eden Programme Has Proven",
    "why": "it states a withdrawn claim"
   }
  },
  {
   "slug": "executive-summary",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The programme as a whole"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "How can self-improving AI remain useful and aligned?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "the-arc-theory-two-page-form",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "laws": [
      "I",
      "V"
     ],
     "form": "range"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "What does the ARC Theory claim, and what would prove it wrong?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "dated-prediction-register",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "The programme's dated predictions"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Verify when each prediction was made, and whether it came before the evidence"
  },
  {
   "slug": "master-table-of-contents",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "Every document of the programme"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Where to start, and how every part of the programme fits together"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hrih-paper",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "Recursive Creation, the hypothesis"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Where does recursive self-improvement end, and what would that predict about our universe?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "hrih-research-programme",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    },
    {
     "text": "The ARC Theory"
    },
    {
     "text": "Recursive Creation, the hypothesis"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Could intelligence create real universes, and what would count as evidence?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "paper-c-pnp",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Standalone paper"
    },
    {
     "text": "outside the ARC Theory"
    }
   ],
   "headline": "Does visible high performance show that no support is needed?"
  },
  {
   "slug": "priority-index",
   "line": [
    {
     "text": "Recursive Dynamics"
    }
   ],
   "headline": null,
   "top": false,
   "h1_was": "Priority index"
  }
 ]
}