Universe Routing: Why Self-Evolving Agents Need Epistemic Control

ArXi:2603.14799v1 Announce Type: cross A critical failure mode of current lifelong agents is not lack of knowledge, but the inability to decide how to reason. When an agent encounters "Is this coin fair?" it must recognize whether to invoke frequentist hypothesis testing or Bayesian posterior inference - frameworks that are epistemologically incompatible. Mixing them produces not minor errors, but structural failures that propagate across decision chains.