drc500free comments on What is Evil about creating House Elves? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drc500free 13 December 2010 03:03:05PM 0 points [-]

Instead of creating them from scratch, would it be immoral to take a species that hated chores and wirehead them to enjoy chores?

Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2010 03:07:56PM 0 points [-]

I think it is. I mentioned this possiblity here:

I can also understand that many people would mind their descendants being modified in such a fashion, perhaps their dis-utility is enough to offset the utility of their modified descendants.

However I think the tipping point starts way before "not a single line of derived code":

However how true is this of distant descendants that only share passing resemblance? I think a helpful reminder of scale might be our own self domestication.