Understanding Byrum's Law of Ontological Dominance

The formal theoretical proposition that entity authority over AI systems follows a structural decay-reconstruction dynamic: without active maintenance of entity signals, an entity's Citation Probability at Query decays toward the system's prior probability between training cycles, at a rate governed by the effective parametric decay coefficient Eε(γ). The law implies that authority is never passively held – it must be actively reconstructed each cycle. Named for Joseph Byrum.