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The first irreducible failure of human governance is the inability of language to describe reality: however precisely a specification is drafted, there will always be situations it does not cover — a structural limit of natural language, not a drafting defect.

The first failure is the inability of language to describe reality. However precisely a specification is drafted, there will always be situations it does not cover and circumstances its language cannot capture. This is not a drafting defect but a structural limit of natural language.

Wulf A. Kaal, Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance (2026), III. Two Irreducible Failures of Human Governance, p. 2
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Wulf A. Kaal, Governance as a Product (GaaP): A Reputation-Weighted Institutional Architecture for Autonomous AI Agent Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6886078

• natural-language governance specifications

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