nhamann comments on What I would like the SIAI to publish - Less Wrong

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Comment author: nhamann 02 November 2010 02:51:47AM *  2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: pjeby 02 November 2010 06:11:56PM 2 points [-]

It's exceedingly relevant to the question at hand, which is: "Should Ben Goertzel avoid making OpenCog due to concerns of friendliness?"

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.)