Preprint / scholarly article
When "Good vs. Bad Governance" Is Unidentifiable
- Published
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.18465306
Abstract
This supplement studies when observable-only, no-meta agents cannot distinguish good from bad governance because mediator implementations are observationally equivalent from local history. It proves an impossibility result for robust progress guarantees under that unidentifiability and derives operational conditions such as contestability, safe refusal, and cross-domain witnesses for breaking silent contract switching.
Keywords
- no-meta
- governance unidentifiability
- observable-only
- exit-impossibility
- robust progress
- observational equivalence
- minimax lower bound
- contestability
- right-to-refuse
- control-domain independence
- dual-use