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I'm quite sure they do. Right now I can't think of a philosopher who is as imposing to me as (the late) E.T. Jaynes is. Unless you count people like Judea Pearl who also do AI research, that is. :)
But that doesn't mean that mainstream philosophers never make useful and original contributions on all kinds of subjects relevant to Less Wrong and even to friendly AI.
That (Jaynes) is a pretty high standard. But not impossibly high. As candidates, I would mention Jaakko Hintikka, Per Martin-Lof and the late David Lewis. If you are allowed to count economists, then I would also mention game theorists like Aumann, Binmore, and the late John Harsanyi. And if you allow philosophically inclined physicists like Jaynes, there are quite a few folks worth mentioning.
I'd never heard of Per Martin-Lof, thanks.
I of course am not definitive here, but I strongly suspect that from EY's perspective it means precisely that.
If so, I don't think he can maintain that position consistently, since he has already benefited from the work of many mainstream philosophers, and continues to do so - for example Bostrom on anthropic reasoning.