I’ve always been confused on what people find confusing re the problem of the criterion. If I get it right, you can state it as “you must know how to assess truth in order to know how to assess truth”, or something like that. My confusion about confusion lies in squaring that with the idea of embedded agency, where we are a part of partially predictable universe and contain an imperfect model of the universe. Therefore something like a criterion for assessing truth is inherent in the setup, otherwise we would not count as agents.
Everything that an embedded agent does, or needs to do comes, under usefulness. Inasmuch as truth goes beyond usefulness , arguments from agency don’t work.
I’ve always been confused on what people find confusing re the problem of the criterion. If I get it right, you can state it as “you must know how to assess truth in order to know how to assess truth”, or something like that. My confusion about confusion lies in squaring that with the idea of embedded agency, where we are a part of partially predictable universe and contain an imperfect model of the universe. Therefore something like a criterion for assessing truth is inherent in the setup, otherwise we would not count as agents.
Everything that an embedded agent does, or needs to do comes, under usefulness. Inasmuch as truth goes beyond usefulness , arguments from agency don’t work.