# kaal:claim:6886078-004

**Claim.** The two failures interact through the representation choice: a more expressive representation describes more of reality but is harder to reason about, so every governance design must choose where on this frontier to sit.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- the expressiveness-reliability frontier

**Source quote.**

> The two failures interact. The choice of representation determines the scope of reliable reasoning. A more expressive representation can describe more of reality but is harder to reason about; a less expressive representation enables reliable reasoning over a narrower domain. Any governance design must therefore choose where on this frontier to sit

**From.** 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, page 2

**Cite as.** 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

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**Topics.** governance-design, institutional-design, research-methods

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