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Cognitive Comparability and the Limits of Governance: Evaluating Authority Under Radical Capability Asymmetry

Tony Rost

Four of six standard governance dimensions fail structurally when cognitive asymmetry between authority and subjects becomes radical.

arxiv:2604.02720 v3 · 2026-04-03 · cs.CY

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C1strongest claim

Four of six dimensions show structural failures under radical capability asymmetry; two require new normative theory rather than institutional design, and dimensions that operated independently under bounded asymmetry degrade together because each depends on the same oversight capacity.

C2weakest assumption

That the six dimensions remain meaningfully separable and evaluable even when cognitive incomprehensibility is total, and that the framework can be applied to superintelligent authority without additional specifications of how 'bounded' superintelligence is defined or how its outputs could be assessed.

C3one line summary

A six-dimension framework shows structural failures in four governance principles under radical capability asymmetry, with two requiring new normative theory and a pattern of interdependent breakdown.

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arxiv: 2604.02720 · arxiv_version: 2604.02720v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.02720 · pith_short_12: 7G3JJ5VPTX7C · pith_short_16: 7G3JJ5VPTX7C6P4B · pith_short_8: 7G3JJ5VP

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