Kinda, yes. Any problem is a decision theory problem - in a sense. However, we can get a long way without the wirehead problem, utility counterfeiting, and machines mining their own brains causing problems.
From the perspective of ordinary development these don't look like urgent issues - we can work on them once we have smarter minds. We need not fear not solving them too much - since if we can't solve these problems our machines won't work and nobody will buy them. It would take security considerations to prioritise these problems at this stage.
At the FHI, we are currently working on a project around whole brain emulations (WBE), or uploads. One important question is if getting to whole brain emulations first would make subsequent AGI creation
If you have any opinions or ideas on this, please submit them here. No need to present an organised overall argument; we'll be doing that. What would help most is any unusual suggestion, that we might not have thought of, for how WBE would affect AGI.
EDIT: Many thanks to everyone who suggested ideas here, they've been taken under consideration.