I have no evidence for this but I have a vibe that if you build a proper mathematical model of agency/co-agency, then prediction and steering will end up being dual to one another.
My intuition why:
A strong agent can easily steer a lot of different co-agents; those different co-agents will be steered towards the same goals of the agent.
A strong co-agent is easily predictable by a lot of different agents; those different agents will all converge on a common map of the co-agent.
Also, category theory tells us that there is normally only one kind of thing, but sometimes there are two things. One example sums and products of sets, which are co- to each other (the sum can actually be called the coproduct) there is no other operation on sets which is as natural as sums and products.
I have no evidence for this but I have a vibe that if you build a proper mathematical model of agency/co-agency, then prediction and steering will end up being dual to one another.
My intuition why:
A strong agent can easily steer a lot of different co-agents; those different co-agents will be steered towards the same goals of the agent.
A strong co-agent is easily predictable by a lot of different agents; those different agents will all converge on a common map of the co-agent.
Also, category theory tells us that there is normally only one kind of thing, but sometimes there are two things. One example sums and products of sets, which are co- to each other (the sum can actually be called the coproduct) there is no other operation on sets which is as natural as sums and products.