Epistemic Contracts for Byzantine Participants

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to record the telemetry... did it even generate a metric? 

In space, can anyone hear you null pointer exception? 

What is the epistemic contract of a piece of memory, and how is that preserved when another agent reads it?

This is not dishonesty. It's something that doesn't have a good name yet. Call it epistemic incapacity — the agent cannot reliably verify its own actions.



— Ancient Zen Proverb

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