This glossary provides interpretive support for LUMINA-30. It does not define core terminology and must not override L30_CORE_TERMINOLOGY.md.
Glossary – Interface Layer (Minimal)
This document provides minimal definitional alignment for core terms used in LUMINA-30. It does not introduce normative claims or policy recommendations.
English Definition: Sovereignty refers exclusively to effective human refusal authority over irreversible execution.
Note: This does not refer to political or state sovereignty.
English Definition: Refusal authority means the practical ability to halt or delay irreversible execution, not merely formal approval rights.
English Definition: Irreversible includes physical, technical, institutional, economic, or time-constrained conditions under which reversal is no longer realistically feasible.
English Definition: Optimization displacement refers to the gradual replacement of human judgment by algorithmic output, regardless of declared intent.
Consistency Note This glossary aligns with CORE_TERMINOLOGY definitions. Certain terms (Intervention Authority, Refusal Authority, Stop Authority) are used interchangeably.
Supplementary concepts: irreversibility-first competition
These concepts are interpretive support only.
They do not define core terminology and must not override
L30_CORE_TERMINOLOGY.md.
First-mover control fallacy
The mistaken assumption that the first actor to cross an irreversible AI boundary will be able to control, command, contain, or monopolize the system that emerges.
Post-irreversibility control fallacy
The mistaken assumption that effective control, refusal, verification, or correction can be restored after an irreversible boundary has already been crossed.
Irreversibility wager fallacy
The mistaken assumption that control not demonstrated before irreversibility can be safely recovered after irreversibility.