“Free will” and “nature of truth” happen to be topics that I’ve given less time to, but I could write down my inside view of why I’m not confident they are solved problems
This depends on the threshold of “solved”, which doesn’t seem particularly relevant to this conversation. What philosophy would consider “solved” is less of an issue than its propensity to miss/ignore available insight (as compared to, say, mathematics). “Free will” and “nature of truth”, for example, still have important outstanding confusions, but they also have major resolved issues, and those remaining confusions are subtle, hard to frame/notice when one is busy arguing on the other sides of the resolved issues.
Free will and Nature of Truth are subjects I have devoted plenty of time to, and it terms to .me that conclusion -and overconfidence—abound on the Less Wrong side of the fence,
This depends on the threshold of “solved”, which doesn’t seem particularly relevant to this conversation. What philosophy would consider “solved” is less of an issue than its propensity to miss/ignore available insight (as compared to, say, mathematics). “Free will” and “nature of truth”, for example, still have important outstanding confusions, but they also have major resolved issues, and those remaining confusions are subtle, hard to frame/notice when one is busy arguing on the other sides of the resolved issues.
Free will and Nature of Truth are subjects I have devoted plenty of time to, and it terms to .me that conclusion -and overconfidence—abound on the Less Wrong side of the fence,
As the ultimate question seems to be: “Is this FAI design safe?” I think solved should have a high bar.