abramdemski comments on Second-Order Logic: The Controversy - Less Wrong
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I think you are overestimating the difficulty of the mathematical problem here! To quote JoshuaFox:
But once those problems are solved, we do not need to additionally solve the problem you are highlighting, I think...
When it comes down to it, wouldn't this be just like some logic that is the common subset of the two, or perhaps some kind of average (between the probability distributions on observations induced by each logic)? Again, I think this will be handled well enough (handled better, to be precise) by a more powerful logic which can express each of the two narrower logics as a hypothesis about the structure in which the environment is best defined. Then the honest argument you describe will be a result of the honest attempt of the agent to estimate probabilities and find plans of action which yield utility regardless of the status of the unknowns.