The concept of cluelessness seems like it’s pointing at something interesting (radical uncertainty about the future) but has largely been derailed by being interpreted in the context of formal epistemology. Whether or not we can technically “take the expected value” even under radical uncertainty is both a confused question (human cognition doesn’t fit any of these formalisms!), and also much less interesting than the question of how to escape from radical uncertainty. In order to address the latter, I’d love to see more work that starts from Bostrom’s framing in terms of crucial considerations.
The concept of cluelessness seems like it’s pointing at something interesting (radical uncertainty about the future) but has largely been derailed by being interpreted in the context of formal epistemology. Whether or not we can technically “take the expected value” even under radical uncertainty is both a confused question (human cognition doesn’t fit any of these formalisms!), and also much less interesting than the question of how to escape from radical uncertainty. In order to address the latter, I’d love to see more work that starts from Bostrom’s framing in terms of crucial considerations.