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Doesn't increasing N also change L? If N is part of the specification of the agent, then its value can affect the length of proofs about the agent. This indicates that there are probably agent designs for which we cannot just sufficiently increase N in order to make this diagonalization argument work.
It's possible. In the example, L doesn't depend on N, but it could. What we need is an L that works as an upper bound, even if we use M>N based on 2*L+ in the diagonal step.