Why authority today is not interpreted, but compiled.
Power is no longer narrated, debated, or mediated. It executes. In smart contracts, LLMs, and predictive control systems, legitimacy is no longer a matter of symbolic discourse — it is a function of syntax as infrastructure. This article introduces the concept of the regla compilada (compiled rule) as the structural vehicle of an executable sovereign: a form of authority that does not appeal to subjects, meanings, or law, but to triggers, hashes, and deployment thresholds.
**What the Article Does
**The paper, titled “Executable Power: Syntax as Infrastructure in Predictive Societies” (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15754713), defines executable power as authority derived from deterministic syntactic activation. Using three empirical cases — smart contracts, TAP (Trigger-Action Protocol) engines, and LLM moderation systems — the article documents how automated decisions are made without human oversight, intention, or appeal.
Each system analyzed forms a closed execution environment. In these environments, inputs are matched against compiled rules. If a pattern aligns, action is triggered. There is no interpretation, no contextual override, no discourse. What matters is form matching form.
**Why This Matters
**Traditional legal and political systems assume that rules are interpreted by agents. But compiled rules do not interpret — they execute. This challenges compliance frameworks like the EU AI Act, which require traceability and assignable accountability. When authority is embedded in a syntax trigger, no human subject can be held responsible. The system acts without speaking.
As shown in this study, LLM-based moderation blocks prompts in 134 ± 2 ms with no override. TAP engines halt transactions in test environments without fail. DAO systems activate proposals with 92.4 % success (σ = 9.1 %, N = 7 842). The act of execution becomes irreversible, measurable, and structurally opaque.
**Examples Anyone Can Understand
**A contract that locks funds if your balance exceeds 100 USDC. You cannot dispute it — it executes.
A prompt that fails because the model identifies a forbidden pattern. There is no reason given — it fails.
A DAO that passes a vote automatically when quorum is syntactically met, regardless of interpretation.
These systems do not ask for justification. They operate on structural fidelity.
**What the Article Adds
**This paper formalizes:
The regla compilada as a type-0 production in the Chomsky hierarchy.
The soberano ejecutable as an authority without subject or symbolic reference.
A falsifiability test (binomial one-tailed) applied to system overrides.
A methodological window of sovereignty: 12 months or 10 000 executions.
It situates the discussion in dialogue with legal theory (Hart, Arendt), syntax (Chomsky, Montague), and recent technical literature on zk-proofs, LLM instruction-following, and protocol enforcement.
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**The article is available open access at Zenodo:
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Agustin V. Startari
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**My Ethos
**I do not use artificial intelligence to write what I don’t know. I use it to challenge what I do. I write to reclaim the voice in an age of automated neutrality. My work is not outsourced. It is authored.
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