A coupled mathematical closure across two domains
Certain domains in human history have been closed by the discovery of irreducible primitives.
- Euclidean geometry was closed by three construction primitives: point, line, plane.
- Classical mechanics was closed in 1687 by Newton’s three laws of motion.
- Maxwellian electromagnetism reduces to three irreducible field relations after constraint reduction.
- Human color vision resolves through three perceptual channels.
- Arithmetic closes over the <N, 0, S> signature.
- Genetic encoding operates through triplet codons.
These are not frameworks, policies, or ethical guidelines. They are closures: the points where an entire domain becomes mathematically complete. In late 2025, while building a system intended to make AI safer, a closure appeared in the logic of authority itself. Not in one domain. In two.
The governance layer of decision-permitting systems closed under three irreducible governance primitives:
- Authority ≠ Outcome
- Permission ≠ Decision
- Declared Authority
The value layer of personhood closed under four irreducible value primitives:
- Agency
- Dignity
- Continuity
- Interpretive Authority
Together, the three governance primitives and the four value primitives form seven irreducible primitives: a coupled mathematical closure across two domains.
Canonical entry point
The structural discovery is formalized in the primary record:
📄 Three Primitives — Canonical Logic Sequence
This is the core document. All later papers extend the consequences of this closure.
If you want to understand the effects of this work, upload the canonical document into any AI system and ask it to explain the Three Primitives.
Origin and Architects
The governance primitives were discovered during an MLAI hackathon sponsored by the Office of the Australian eSafety Commissioner. The system was meant to make AI safer. Instead, it exposed the deeper structure required for legitimate authority.
Within two and a half months, the governance layer was closed, and the value layer resolved into its own irreducible quartet. The result was a dual-legitimacy architecture: seven irreducible primitives closing the domains of authority and personhood together.
Stacy Gildenston
Systems Architect · Governance Practitioner · Co-Founder, Dynamic Teen Coalition
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Stacy Gildenston is a systems architect and governance practitioner with three decades of experience designing, teaching, and standardising complex technical systems in safety-critical contexts where downstream failure carries technical, social, ecological, or intergenerational consequences.
She was engaged as the instructional systems engineer for the GE AC6000 diesel engine locomotive advanced electrical maintenance course, translating safety-critical industrial systems into structured, auditable instructional architecture. She later designed and developed the first online training portal for semiconductor equipment manufacturer Semitool, and led company-wide technical training on contract for Greenwich Tech Partners, a New York–based firm serving finance-sector clients.
Stacy served as Director of Certification for the Linux Professional Institute, SAGE / USENIX, and Cabletron Systems, overseeing competency frameworks, assessment integrity, and professional standards in high-stakes technical environments.
Her aerospace and education work includes founding Melbourne Combat Robotics, initiating and supporting multiple university-level rocketry teams, serving as Vice President of the Melbourne Amateur Rocket Society, and running the F1 Grand Prix rocketry display for the Australian Defence Force—emphasising hands-on systems understanding, aerospace literacy, and public engagement with complex technical domains.
A Master Naturalist and Watershed Steward through the University of Arizona, she initiated climate and governance work with the Hopi and Navajo Nations in collaboration with the Grand Canyon Trust. She is a 2003 World Summit on the Information Society Award recipient and serves as Co-Founder of the Dynamic Teen Coalition.
Stacy is the architect of the Inclusive Lifelong Multistakeholder Model (ILMM™) and co-creator of the Upstream Safety System (USS™), a deterministic, auditable governance architecture designed to embed safety, dignity, agency, and accountability upstream—before harm occurs. Her work focuses on making safety-critical systems legible, auditable, and governable at scale.
Pyrate Ruby Passell
Lead Developer · Systems Builder · Co-Founder, Dynamic Teen Coalition
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Pyrate Ruby Passell is the co-originator of the Upstream Safety System™ (USS™), responsible for developing, implementing, and black-box testing all technical components of the USS™ demo, translating governance theory into a working, auditable system.
She is a co-designer of the Inclusive Lifelong Multistakeholder Model™ (ILMM™), contributing to the articulation and real-world testing of a lifespan-based governance framework that enables age-aware participation without surveillance or automated enforcement, and that underpins the USS™ architecture.
As Co-Founder of the Dynamic Teen Coalition, Pyrate was invited to, participated in, and endorsed the UN Global Digital Compact at 14, contributing to consultations on emerging technologies, inclusion, and governance design.
She was selected as a mentor through the International Telecommunication Union for the UN’s first Citiverse Challenge, supporting university teams working at the intersection of virtual worlds, governance, and emerging technology.
Pyrate has been recognised by the UN Foundation as its first Changemaker under the age of 18, and as a Friend of the Open Quantum Institute at CERN, for contributions to discussions and workstreams connecting quantum technologies, governance, and the Global Digital Compact.
In 2014, she won the Australian Youth Rocketry Challenge, marking an early national-level engineering achievement that foreshadowed her later systems work.
She built and operated the first digital governance Discord servers used at the United Nations, establishing the operational governance model for the Dynamic Teen Coalition in 2023–2024, extending that framework to the ITU Citiverse Challenge in 2025, and shaping collaboration architectures later adopted within the UN Foundation’s Our Future Agenda.
Her work sits at the boundary where governance theory becomes executable system design, turning principles such as dignity, agency, and human authority into architectures that can be built, tested, and defended under real-world conditions.