Ontology as Compiler: QFI, Compilation, and a Bytecode of Law
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We elaborate and formalize a compilation pipeline in which legal corpora aretranslated into a typed, graded, and contract-indexed bytecode whose denotation is afinite-state quotient flow with Quotient Flow Information (QFI) as invariant substrate.The expansion introduces: (i) a full syntax and typing discipline for a Legal BytecodeVirtual Machine (LBVM) with graded effects; (ii) small-step and denotational semanticswith an explicit idiom-compiler functor; (iii) preservation and reflection theorems(safety, reachability, spectral/LDP telemetry) with gap-damped bounds; (iv) executableinstrumentation—action-aware betweenness, Murphy horizons, and QFI curvatureoverlays—including algorithms and complexity; (v) a Right-To-Erasure (RTE) casestudy with budgets, falsifiers, and ablations; and (vi) an interpreter sketch with compile-time σ-contracts that guarantee closure under composition. Throughout, translation ispolicy, and policy compiles to flows whose invariants are measurable and auditable atfinite time.
Author: Elliott, Jacob Alexander
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7085861997
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