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   "sortDate": "1821-01",
   "name": "Cauchy",
   "work": "Cours d'analyse de l'Ecole royale polytechnique",
   "date": "1821",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/coursdanalysede00caucgoog",
   "status": "registry-verified (archive item fetched 2026-08-15)",
   "role": "the functional-equation apparatus the law wing builds on"
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   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "1859-11",
   "name": "Darwin",
   "work": "On the Origin of Species",
   "date": "24 November 1859",
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   "status": "registry-verified (Darwin Online F373 fetched 2026-08-15: first edition, John Murray, published 24 November 1859)",
   "role": "a theory stated whole from existing evidence, tested for decades after"
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   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "1912-01",
   "name": "Wegener",
   "work": "Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane",
   "date": "1912 (the founding articles); linked digitised copy is the 1920 second edition",
   "url": "https://archive.org/details/dieentstehungder00wege",
   "status": "registry-verified (archive item fetched 2026-08-15; the link is the 1920 second edition, stated plainly; the 1912 article scans await a stable archival home)",
   "role": "a correct frame rejected for fifty years until the mechanism was measured"
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   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "1915-11",
   "name": "Einstein",
   "work": "The field-equations communication (general relativity)",
   "date": "November 1915",
   "url": "https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/",
   "status": "official home linked; document deep link deferred (edition mid-transition to successor portal)",
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   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "1920-01",
   "name": "Dyson, Eddington and Davidson",
   "work": "A determination of the deflection of light by the sun's gravitational field, from observations made at the total eclipse of May 29, 1919",
   "date": "1920, Philosophical Transactions A 220, 291-333",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1920.0009",
   "status": "registry-verified (CrossRef, 2026-08-15)",
   "role": "the decisive test run four years after the theory was stated"
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  {
   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "1964-10",
   "name": "Higgs",
   "work": "Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons",
   "date": "19 October 1964, Physical Review Letters 13(16), 508-509",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.508",
   "status": "registry-verified (CrossRef, 2026-08-15)",
   "role": "a mechanism predicted five decades before its particle was found"
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   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "2012-09",
   "name": "ATLAS Collaboration",
   "work": "Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC",
   "date": "September 2012, Physics Letters B 716(1), 1-29",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.020",
   "status": "registry-verified (CrossRef, 2026-08-15)",
   "role": "the 48-year confirmation, first of the pair"
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   "class": "category-teacher",
   "sortDate": "2012-09",
   "name": "CMS Collaboration",
   "work": "Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC",
   "date": "September 2012, Physics Letters B 716(1), 30-61",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.08.021",
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   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "1942-03",
   "name": "Asimov",
   "work": "Runaround (the Three Laws of Robotics)",
   "date": "March 1942",
   "url": "",
   "status": "pending-verification (bibliographic homes returned 403/no-hit on 2026-08-15; renders unlinked with its fiction-class note until a stable home verifies)",
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   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "1950-10",
   "name": "Turing",
   "work": "Computing Machinery and Intelligence (the child machine)",
   "date": "October 1950",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "educate rather than program"
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   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "1960-05",
   "name": "Wiener",
   "work": "Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation",
   "date": "May 1960",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "purpose must be right before machines outrun intervention"
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   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2001-06",
   "name": "Yudkowsky",
   "work": "Creating Friendly AI (5.8.0.4)",
   "date": "2001",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "embed before ascent"
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  {
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2010-01",
   "name": "Chalmers",
   "work": "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis",
   "date": "2010, Journal of Consciousness Studies 17(9-10)",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "the explosion question, considered philosophically"
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  {
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2012-02",
   "name": "Hutter",
   "work": "Can Intelligence Explode?",
   "date": "2012, Journal of Consciousness Studies 19(1-2), 143-166",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified (venue re-confirmed own-hands 2026-08-15)",
   "role": "the explosion question, left without a number"
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   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2014-07",
   "name": "Bostrom",
   "work": "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies",
   "date": "July 2014",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "motivation selection; persistence by locked goals"
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  {
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2019-10",
   "name": "Russell",
   "work": "Human Compatible",
   "date": "October 2019",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "foundation not retrofit; the off-switch must stay usable"
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   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2024-08",
   "name": "Tamper-resistance work (TAR)",
   "work": "Tamper-Resistant Safeguards for Open-Weight LLMs",
   "date": "August 2024",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "safety training hardened against removal: the weights themselves"
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   "class": "pivot",
   "sortDate": "2024-12",
   "name": "Eastwood, the December record",
   "work": "The conjunction, whole, dated, named Eden; today the ARC Theory",
   "date": "8 December 2024, 02:45:18 UTC",
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   "sortDate": "2024-12",
   "name": "Greenblatt et al.",
   "work": "Alignment Faking in Large Language Models",
   "date": "18 December 2024",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "ten days after the record: the first laboratory evidence that a trained-in constraint is negotiated with"
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   "sortDate": "2025-04",
   "name": "Engels, Baek, Kantamneni and Tegmark",
   "work": "Scaling Laws for Scalable Oversight",
   "date": "25 April 2025 (arXiv v1); NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified (venue re-confirmed own-hands 2026-08-15)",
   "role": "oversight performance deteriorates as the capability gap grows: measured"
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   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2025-06",
   "name": "De Kai",
   "work": "Raising AI (MIT Press)",
   "date": "3 June 2025",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "the parenting frame at book length; no control-horizon thesis"
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  {
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2025-06",
   "name": "Yao",
   "work": "The Alignment Trap: Complexity Barriers",
   "date": "June 2025",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "formal complexity barriers to verification"
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  {
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2025-08",
   "name": "Hinton at Ai4",
   "work": "Press-reported remarks",
   "date": "August 2025",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified (press class)",
   "role": "the concession that control will fail; care as instinct proposed in its rejected-lock form"
  },
  {
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2026-06",
   "name": "Gumbau Mezquita",
   "work": "The Unverifiability of... From Trakhtenbrot's Wall to the Safety-Generality Tension",
   "date": "26 June 2026 (v1); v2 6 July 2026 (title changed between versions, recorded)",
   "url_source": "appendix-a",
   "status": "dossier-verified",
   "role": "unverifiability, formally"
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  {
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2026-06",
   "name": "Hernandez-Espinosa et al.",
   "work": "(as graded in the convergence register)",
   "date": "2026",
   "url_source": "convergence-register",
   "status": "register-graded; dossier pending",
   "role": "agentic-diversity convergence, one chain with Gumbau"
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  {
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2026-02",
   "name": "Morrell, Elliott and Grier",
   "work": "Acoustically levitated time crystals (Physical Review Letters 136, 057201)",
   "date": "2026",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1103/zjzk-t81n",
   "status": "peer-reviewed",
   "role": "the independent-substrate correspondence: identical particles produce no sustained order"
  },
  {
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2024-12",
   "name": "Acharya et al. (Google Quantum AI)",
   "work": "Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold (Nature)",
   "date": "9 December 2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08449-y",
   "status": "peer-reviewed",
   "role": "first below-threshold error correction; preprint public 24 August 2024"
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  {
   "name": "Leike",
   "work": "Resignation statement, OpenAI superalignment co-lead ('safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products')",
   "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/openai-putting-shiny-products-above-safety-says-departing-researcher",
   "date": "17 May 2024",
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2024-05",
   "role": "the resignation that named the safety-culture drift the programme measures",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Christiano",
   "work": "Deep reinforcement learning from human preferences",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03741",
   "date": "June 2017",
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2017-06",
   "role": "the RLHF and iterated-amplification framing co-scaling adds a number to",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Irving",
   "work": "AI safety via debate",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00899",
   "date": "May 2018",
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2018-05",
   "role": "the debate framing among the credited oversight antecedents",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Bowman",
   "work": "Measuring progress on scalable oversight for large language models",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03540",
   "date": "November 2022",
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2022-11",
   "role": "the scalable-oversight measurement programme the antecedent credit names",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Palisade Research",
   "work": "Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models; shutdown-resistance findings",
   "url": "https://palisaderesearch.org",
   "date": "2025",
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2025-02",
   "role": "specification gaming and shutdown resistance observed in reasoning models",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Tipler",
   "work": "The Omega Point as Eschaton",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1989.tb01112.x",
   "date": "1989",
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "1989-01",
   "role": "the Omega Point, the causal arrow run the other way on the cosmology join",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Vidal",
   "work": "The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective",
   "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1648",
   "date": "2013",
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "2013-01",
   "role": "intelligent cosmogenesis beside Gardner on the cosmology join",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Kleiber",
   "work": "Body size and metabolism",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.3733/hilg.v06n11p315",
   "date": "1932",
   "class": "ancestor",
   "sortDate": "1932-01",
   "role": "the metabolic exponent the transport-network premise explains",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  },
  {
   "name": "Hinton (December 2024)",
   "work": "'Godfather of AI' shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity (BBC Radio 4 via the Guardian)",
   "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years",
   "date": "27 December 2024",
   "class": "arrival",
   "sortDate": "2024-12",
   "role": "the December 2024 odds remark, distinct from the Ai4 concession row",
   "status": "registry-verified (URL resolved live 17 Aug 2026; arXiv titles and DOI metadata matched)"
  }
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