It’s fairly irrelevant to the argument: there are many possible ways to get there
I don’t see how you can say that. It’s exceedingly relevant to the question at hand, which is: “Should Ben Goertzel avoid making OpenCog due to concerns of friendliness?”. If the Foom-threshold is exceedingly high (several to dozens times the “level” of human intelligence), then it is overwhelmingly unlikely that OpenCog has a chance to Foom. It’d be something akin to the Wright brothers building a Boeing 777 instead of the Wright flyer. Total nonsense.
I don’t see how you can say that. It’s exceedingly relevant to the question at hand, which is: “Should Ben Goertzel avoid making OpenCog due to concerns of friendliness?”. If the Foom-threshold is exceedingly high (several to dozens times the “level” of human intelligence), then it is overwhelmingly unlikely that OpenCog has a chance to Foom. It’d be something akin to the Wright brothers building a Boeing 777 instead of the Wright flyer. Total nonsense.
Ah. Well, that wasn’t the question I was discussing. ;-)
(And I would think that the answer to that question would depend heavily on what OpenCog consists of.)