Failure of Interruption Under Scale: A Structural Progression

Function in corpus

Applied instantiation of Paper 66's framework — turns the architectural conditions for interruption authority into a concrete diagnostic progression.

Details

This paper is an explicit companion to Paper 66 (Interruption Authority Under Scale). Where Paper 66 defines what real interruption authority structurally requires, Paper 68 demonstrates how it is lost. The progression traces seven stages: t₀ (full interruption authority — all propagation intersects a single control structure); t₁ (parallelisation without loss); t₂ (internal dependence and temporal inferiority — the last recoverable moment, when all continuations still intersect a single external boundary); t₃ (boundary incompleteness); t₄ (choke-point dissolution); t₅ (reconstructive bypass — reconstruction cost falls below suppression cost); t₆ (topology drift — constraint targeting permanently outpaced); t₇ (inequality inversion — suppression requires global coordination while persistence requires only local continuation). The key insight: t₂ is the last recoverable moment. After this point, restoring non-bypassability requires restructuring the system itself rather than acting on its boundary. Interruption authority does not fail at a point — it erodes through compounding structural transitions. Connected papers: Interruption Authority Under Scale (primary); Irreversibility Thresholds in Replicating Systems; Acceleration and Degeneracy; Restoration Geometry; Irreversibility in Knowledge Systems; Restoration as Multi-Boundary Reachability.

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