Full Idea
Just as a utility-calculating machine would be the ideal moral agent according to utilitarianism, a truth-producing machine would be the ideal epistemic agent according to reliabilism,
Gist of Idea
Epistemic perfection for reliabilism is a truth-producing machine
Source
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Virtues of the Mind [1996], I 1.2)
A Reaction
Love this one! For consequentialists a successful robot is morally superior to an average human being. The reliabilist dream is just something that churns out truths. But what is the role of these truths in subsequent life?
Book Reference
Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.29