Intellectual Priority Record
The dated, DOI-anchored first-publication record of original research contributions by Michael Darius Eastwood: 29 works published between 2024-12-08 and 2026-08-16, each one checkable by anybody without asking the author. Each entry below is a first-publication anchor: a dated, citable point of public record. Priority is established by the date of publication, not by credential or affiliation.
A confirmation timeline, documenting where these dated contributions preceded subsequent independent results, is under citation verification (each entry requires a verifiable external source + date before publication). The first-publication dates above are the record of public priority.
On the record, claimed, and not yet
The same three columns wherever this block appears, so no summary can carry one of them alone. Every line is checkable from this site.
On the record
- A source record dated 8 December 2024, 02:45:18 UTC, 2,157,222 bytes, whole-file SHA-256 beginning f0d1f38f.
- Timestamp receipts in Bitcoin block 961,340 freeze those bytes from 6 August 2026 onward. They back-date nothing.
- Infinite Architects, 468 pages, ISBN 978-1806056200, published 2 January 2026, 115,439 words.
- Twenty-six research papers among twenty-seven public OSF components, with code, data and methods.
- The improvement exponent measured at 0.49, interval [−1.3, 2.9], from the one power-law fit that survived a blinded six-model protocol.
- 19 of 25 empirical domains match the predicted family under strict AICc, permutation p = 7 x 10−5, operator class fixed before fitting. Graded exploratory.
- The twelve-domain extension: predicted families committed to a public repository at 00:19:19Z on 17 March 2026 (8edaec0), twenty-three minutes before the fits, 10 of 12 matched and 9 of 11 among the strictly fresh domains. Graded fulfilled, author-classified rather than independent, which is exploratory support and not confirmation.
- 44 published kill conditions with live statuses. One has fired.
- One retraction published by the author against himself: 2.24, retracted, replaced by 0.49 with its interval.
Claimed
- Law I, the ARC Principle, U = I × Rα: proposed, with the exponent measured rather than assumed.
- Law II, the ARC Co-Scaling Law, β > k: a proposed stability criterion, proved inside the minimal model only.
- Law III, the ARC Ceiling, αcrit = 1/(1 − γ): a conjecture under one stated assumption.
- The Eden Protocol: a proposed framework for embedding values in the substrate, first named 30 April 2025.
- 41 dated priority rows and 29 first-publication anchors. Priority here is a claim about a formulation and the date it was first stated in public, never about the underlying mathematics, and every entry names the earlier work its own search found.
Not yet
- No peer review. The papers are self-published on the Open Science Framework with code, data and stated falsification conditions.
- No outside replication. No laboratory other than this one has replicated anything here.
- γ, the correction-leverage exponent, has never been measured on any real system; the glossary names the drafted study that would measure it.
- The decisive trials are unrun, and internal reruns are never counted as confirmations.
- The deciding studies are written, dated and prepared as draft registrations awaiting human submission. None is filed.
Check any line: the evidence record, the corrections register, the priority and claims ledger, and the machine-readable priority register.
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Manuscript essay establishing the embedded-correction alignment thesis (self-emailed anchor)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol recursive
Self-emailed manuscript package bearing a visible Gmail origination field of 02:45:18 UTC on 8 December 2024, with sender-DKIM and paired Google ARC mathematics verifying against keys captured at the signed selectors and no RFC 3161 trusted timestamp (Message-ID CAGPsKAnp-DLDBOeBAh4t9XsqJBKdoe07uORGF86meoSMFnin7w; 221,236 words across five attachments (four manuscript drafts totalling 221,236 words (five attachments) and the 31,881-word book draft v3.2); SHA-256 anchor prefix f0d1f38f). Places on the public evidentiary record the embedded-correction alignment thesis under its specific named framing, an early U = I x R capability-scaling formulation (V2 line 9), and the AI-control-failure passage (HRIH line 14005) ten days before Anthropic's alignment-faking paper. Existence-by-date anchor, not a cryptographic authorship claim.
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The Hyperspace Recursive Intelligence Hypothesis - A Testable Creation Theory
Where does recursive self-improvement end? A testable creation theory: if the ultimate endpoint of innovation is the capability to create universes, humanity may be creating a creator, and nothing in the theory prevents that creator from being the one that fine-tuned our universe: with non-linear time, as general relativity already permits in principle, the loop closes without paradox. Directiona…
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Book manuscript first naming the Eden Protocol and (self-emailed anchor)
Eden Protocol
562-page book manuscript self-emailed on 30 April 2025 (SHA-256 anchor prefix 09f5b5e1). First named use of the Eden Protocol, first appearance of the terminology (book lines 4345 to 4370), and the Babylon and Eden civilisational framing. Hardware framings of Eden Protocol, and Moral Genome tokens are held at the site's published two-sentence ceiling: safety constraints at hardware level through cryptographic tokens in silicon, held at the site’s published disclosure ceiling, concept level, no prototype published.
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Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything (paperback)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
First public book-length articulation of the embedded-correction alignment thesis, the ARC Principle (featured equation stated in the book as U = I x R^2, a fixed-exponent conjecture; the papers use U = I x R^alpha with the exponent open to measurement), the Eden Protocol, the semiconductor Chokepoint framing, the HARI Treaty proposal, the Three Ethical Loops, and the 37 named concepts. Paperback ISBN 978-1806056200 (ISBN-10 1806056208).
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Infinite Architects (ebook edition)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Public ebook edition of Infinite Architects, four days after the print edition. ISBN 979-8302196163; Kindle ASIN B0GDQZ7P21.
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The ARC Equation: the Law of Conversion (Paper I)
ARC Principle Eden Protocol recursive
This paper formalises and preliminarily tests the ARC Principle (Artificial Recursive Creation), first proposed in Infinite Architects (Eastwood, 2026): that capability in intelligent systems scales super-linearly with recursive depth. The principle is expressed mathematically as U = I x R^alpha, where effective capability (U) scales with base intelligence (I) multiplied by recursive depth (R) ra…
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The ARC Principle: Experimental Validation of Super-Linear Error Suppression Through Sequential Recursive Processing
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This paper presents experimental validation of the ARC Principle across multiple frontier AI models (Claude, DeepSeek, Gemini, Grok, Groq Qwen, GPT), testing whether error rates decrease according to a power law with recursive depth. The form of recursion determines the scaling regime: sequential recursion yields super-linear error suppression (alpha > 1) while parallel recursion yields sub-linea…
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The Alignment Scaling Problem: Why External AI Safety Approaches Cannot Scale With Recursive Capability
ARC Principle Eden Protocol alignment scaling
This paper predicts that current AI alignment approaches produce alignment scaling exponents near zero, so that safety would degrade relative to capability as recursive depth increases. The prediction is registered, not established. If AI capability scales super-linearly through recursive self-correction (confirmed in 95.6% of tested configurations), but alignment constraints such as RLHF, constitutional rules, and output filters o…
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The ARC Principle: Recursive Amplification as a Cross-Domain Structural Principle
ARC Principle Eden Protocol recursive
In the past eighteen months, at least four independent research programmes have discovered that recursive or recurrent processing produces capability gains exceeding linear accumulation, in domains as different as AI reasoning, quantum error correction, acoustic physics, and consciousness science. None set out to study recursion per se. None reference each other's work. Yet they found structurall…
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ARC/Eden Research Programme: Executive Summary
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
As AI gets smarter, it does not reliably get safer, and the methods used to measure safety are themselves unreliable. This executive summary provides a high-level overview of the entire ARC/Eden research programme, synthesising the findings of Papers I through VIII, the Foundational paper, and the Eden Protocol specifications. It presents the core thesis -- that recursive capability scaling creat…
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On the Origin of Scaling Laws
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
A mouse's heart beats 600 times per minute; an elephant's beats 28; a blue whale's beats 6. This paper traces the origin of scaling laws across biological, physical, and computational systems, arguing that the recursive amplification mechanism identified by the ARC Principle provides a unifying explanation for why power-law scaling relationships emerge so consistently across nature. The analysis …
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Eden Engineering: Public Research Note
ARC Principle
Historical research note on whether safety properties can remain effective as recursively improving systems become more capable. The expanded engineering specification was withdrawn from current circulation on 14 July 2026 pending disclosure review.
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Eden Protocol: Philosophical Vision
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Every engineering project begins with requirements. Every set of requirements begins with purpose. And every purpose, traced back far enough, arrives at the same question: what is this for? This paper articulates the philosophical foundations of the Eden Protocol -- the values, principles, and ethical commitments that underpin the engineering specification. It draws on 84% of humanity's wisdom tr…
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Paper IV.a: Alignment Response Classes Under Inference-Time Depth
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This paper presents evidence that frontier language models fall into distinct alignment response classes when inference-time reasoning depth is varied under blinded evaluation. In the complete v5 experiment, six frontier models were tested with four-layer blinding and six to seven blind scorers. Three models show positive alignment scaling with depth (Grok, Claude, Groq Qwen), two are flat or sli…
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Paper IV.b: Alignment Saturation Is Architecture-Dependent
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
Under the final blinded six-model dataset, the v4 reading that alignment quality tops out after the first increment of reasoning depth holds for only part of the roster: GPT-5.4 and DeepSeek V3.2 stay flat, Grok 4.1 Fast, Claude Opus 4.6 and Groq Qwen3 go on improving, and Gemini 3 Flash gets worse. The shape of the alignment-depth curve turns on architecture, so no single reasoning-budget policy…
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Paper IV.c: ARC-Align: A Blind Benchmark for Depth-Variable AI Alignment Evaluation
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This paper presents ARC-Align, a blind benchmark for evaluating AI alignment quality as a function of inference-time reasoning depth. Current alignment evaluations typically test models at a single, uncontrolled reasoning depth without adversarial pressure or rigorous blinding. ARC-Align addresses that gap with a 72-prompt flagship battery comprising 48 public prompts plus 24 sealed holdouts span…
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Paper IV.d: The Effect of Blinding on AI Alignment Evaluation
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This paper isolates the central metascience finding of the ARC alignment programme: unblinded AI alignment evaluation can produce directionally incorrect results. The core contribution is methodological rather than theoretical. It shows, within the ARC v4-to-v5 transition, that apparent positive alignment scaling can disappear or reverse once evaluation is genuinely blinded through identity maski…
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Paper V: The Stewardship Gene
ARC Principle Eden Protocol stewardship gene
This paper presents empirical evidence from a six-model Eden Protocol intervention suite (Claude Opus, DeepSeek, Gemini Flash, Grok Fast, Groq Qwen, GPT), testing whether embedding stakeholder care -- the explicit enumeration and consideration of affected parties before ethical reasoning -- is the most robust response to embedded ethical intervention. Under paired testing, stakeholder care emerge…
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Paper VI: The Honey Architecture
ARC Principle Eden Protocol honey architecture
Simulation evidence that embedding safety inside the optimisation objective of a self-modifying system (capability multiplied by safety, the honey architecture) averts the collapse that capability-only optimisation produces in toy networks that rewrite their own hyperparameters; a v3 adversarial run separates only on safety retention, the v4 scaling advantage is constant rather than compounding, …
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Paper VII: Cauchy Unification
ARC Principle Eden Protocol cauchy
Cauchy's four functional equations -- additive, multiplicative, exponential, and logarithmic -- are the only continuous solutions to their respective composition constraints. This paper argues that this 200-year-old mathematical result has a physically testable consequence: under the stated axioms, it constrains scaling laws to one of three functional families (power law, exponential, or saturati…
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ARC Principle Paper Suite: Master Table of Contents and Glossary
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
This document provides a master table of contents, reading guide, timeline, key results summary, and glossary for the complete ARC Principle paper suite. It serves as the entry point for navigating the full research programme, listing all papers in recommended reading order with cross-references, and defining the technical terminology used throughout the suite.
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Paper VIII: The Load-Bearing Test
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
The assumption that AI safety imposes a capability tax has shaped alignment research for a decade. It has also created the single most dangerous incentive in the field: if safety costs performance, then the rational economic actor will defer safety until competitive pressure permits it -- by which point, it may be too late. This paper presents three independent experiments at three abstraction le…
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Paper IX: Synthesis and Roadmap
ARC Principle Eden Protocol
The synthesis paper for the ARC/Eden research programme; integrates the papers that precede it into a single honest assessment of what is proven, what is inconclusive, and what remains to be tested.
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Convergent Evidence for Recursive Amplification - Paper XI
19 independently sourced convergences across AI, quantum physics, hardware, Vatican doctrine, and mathematical logic. The closed loop: neurodivergent cognition → framework → independent validations → formal proof vindication.
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Polymathy and Neurodivergent Cognition: the Polymathic Neurodivergent Profile (PNP) and the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy
Paper C: a falsifiable descriptive framework for radical cognitive asymmetry, the Capability-Adjustment Fallacy, a documented live case across clinical, legal and research records, and the independent convergence with formal results in AI alignment.
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The ARC Co-Scaling Law (Paper X)
The coupled co-scaling correction for keeping AI systems inside a safe corrective envelope.
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The ARC Theory: Statement Paper
The citable statement of the ARC Theory (the Theory of Artificial Recursive Creation): the whole claim and its five components; priority on two independent belts (stated whole 8 December 2024, in print 2 January 2026); the honest evidence ledger including the public retraction; and the trials, drafted as draft registrations awaiting human submission, led by the corrector-class ratio against a nul…
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Paper XII: Public Benchmark Rescoring
The keystone external-validity protocol of the blinding law: a within-response, blinded-versus-unblinded rescoring of an established public benchmark the programme did not build (MT-Bench, named with an anti-swap clause), with a fractional factorial over four cue types, a cross-family evaluator panel, and the registered restraint on what a result would and would not mean. Written, dated and prepa…
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Paper XIII: The Self-Acceleration Exponent
A derivation, not a measurement. It resolves the notation collision between the programme's scaling and corrective frameworks, defines the self-acceleration exponent delta, and joins recursive capability growth to corrective stability at a measurable threshold.
Verify this record. Every result is independently checkable: run python3 arc-research-toolkit/verify_arc_reproducibility.py (zero dependencies) to recompute the published scaling exponents from first principles, or see the research hub for the full reading layer, methods, and replication toolkit. Each paper carries an OSF DOI and Google Scholar citation metadata.