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Err... didn't Harry/Eliezer have some arbitrary ethical problem with creating temporary conscious beings like that? If I recall, he made dramatic oaths about not doing it again and probably swore people to secrecy on the subject.
Yeah, it's just a joke (more specifically, a pun (more specifically, a Tom Swifty)).
Comment on material of instantiation orthogonal to joke concept.