I've recently come across the Pinocchio Paradox:
If Pinocchio says "my nose will grow."
Does his nose grow or not grow?
Tracing through this scenario, we can see this is related to the Epimenides Paradox.
The scenario in the Pinnochio Paradox assumes Pinnochio can predict when his nose will grow or not grow with perfect accuracy and achieves 100% certainty (an assumption that is a poor representation of real world agentic systems). This is essentially a scenario where Pinnochio has become self-aware that deception causes his nose to grow and has honed his predictive model on what threshold of deception triggers nose growth.
The Pinocchio Paradox is resolved by acknowledging that the word "will" in "will grow... (read 798 more words →)
What do you define between nuance and ambiguity is in this context?