The Oracle Problem in Autonomous Agent Commerce: Why Semantic Truth Verication Is Computationally Intractable and What to Build Instead

Autonomous agent commerce where software agents hire, pay, and evaluate otheragents at micropayment scale creates a verication problem that existing approachescannot solve. When Agent A pays Agent B $0.01 for a translation, who determines whetherthe translation is actually good? Human review is economically impossible. A central LLMevaluator is non-deterministic, non-reproducible, and empirically unreliable on ambiguouscases. The problem is not engineering it is epistemological. Tarski (1936) proved thattruth in a formal system cannot be dened within that system. Gödel (1931) proved thatany consistent system contains true statements it cannot prove. Every content moderationsystem that has attempted automated…