Identified Governance Failure Axes: for LLM platforms
Cognitive Memoisation: Extended Governance Axes
Meta-Statement
This page records a first-principles projection of governance axes used to analyse failure in human–AI systems. Axes are treated as orthogonal unless explicitly stated otherwise. Words are treated as handles to concepts, not as definitions. Dangling cognates are preserved intentionally.
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Core Postulates
- Governance failure is multi-axis and non-reducible.
- Orthogonal axes are routinely conflated in literature and practice.
- Epistemic Objects (EO) do not act on governance axes directly.
- Externalised Artefacts (EA) mediate EO participation in governance.
- Thought capture is the creation of scope (Universe of Discourse) usable in inference.
- Failure may occur without model error, inaccuracy, or hallucination.
- Recording failures is a first-class epistemic act.
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Ontological Distinction
| Term | Role |
|---|---|
| EO (Epistemic Object) | Unit of meaning, belief, assumption, or concept |
| EA (Externalised Artefact) | Material or symbolic carrier enabling governance participation |
| UoD (Universe of Discourse) | Declared world over which inference is meaningful |
| Thought Bubble | Provisional, non-authoritative EA |
| Dangling Cognate | Unresolved concept preserved without forced resolution |
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Governance Axes (Extended)
| Axis Code | Axis Name | Handle / Conceptual Role |
|---|---|---|
| A | Authority | Who is treated as epistemically authoritative |
| Ag | Agency | Who performs action or decision |
| C | Epistemic Custody | Who retains ownership/control of knowledge |
| K | Constraint Enforcement | Whether declared invariants are applied |
| R | Recovery / Repair | Ability to recover after failure or loss |
| S | State Continuity | Persistence of state across interaction |
| U | UI / Mediation | Distortion introduced by interface or interaction |
| Sc | Social Coordination | Effects on trust, fairness, cooperation |
| I | Incentive Alignment | What behaviours the system economically rewards |
| L | Legibility / Inspectability | Ability to see what the system is doing now |
| St | Stewardship | Governance without ownership or enclosure |
| P | Portability / Auditability | Vendor-neutral durability and traceability |
| Att | Attention | What participates in inference at a given moment |
| Scope | Scope / Universe of Discourse | What world is assumed for reasoning |
| Art | Articulation | EA form without implied authority or commitment |
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Failure Projection (F)
F = Document explicitly demonstrates failure of this axis.
| Document | A | Ag | C | K | R | S | U | Sc | I | L | St | P | Att | Scope | Art |
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| Authority Inversion | F | F | F | F | |||||||||||
| Governing the Tool That Governs You | F | F | F | F | F | F | |||||||||
| From UI Failure to Logical Entrapment | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | |||||||
| Post-Hoc CM Recovery Collapse (Negative Result) | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | |||||||
| Looping the Loop with No End in Sight | F | F | F | F | F | ||||||||||
| When Training Overrides Logic | F | ||||||||||||||
| Dimensions of Platform Error | F | F | F | F | F | F | |||||||||
| Case Study – Argue With the Machine | F | F | F | F | |||||||||||
| Episodic Failure: Tied-in-a-Knot Chess | F | F | |||||||||||||
| XDUMP (baseline failure motivation) | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | F | ||||||
| CM-2 Self-Hosting Epistemic Capture | F | F | F | F | F |
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Notes on Dangling Cognates
- No axis implies another.
- Failure on one axis does not entail failure on others.
- Some documents intentionally leave axes uninstantiated.
- Absence of F is not evidence of success.
- Terminology remains provisional where concepts are not yet closed.
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Closing Handle
CM is not a framework imposed on cognition. CM is cognition externalising itself under governance.