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CellBioGuy comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 112 - Less Wrong
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Transform a grain of sand into a human being, make transformation permanent with Philosopher’s Stone, bring them to life with a defibrillator (which should be sufficient to “create” a muggle, if I understand chapter 111 correctly), kill them to create a horcrux. Sure, from what we know, that should work.
The ethics of creating living humans in order to kill them seconds late are … well, debatable, to put it mildly.
I was thinking more along the lines of:
1 - Possess accomplice
2 - Create your body
3 - Inhabit your body
4 - Have your body killed, creating horcrux that binds to the rest of the network
5 - Repeat
6 - Profit
EDIT: I have realized one potential folly (or alternately, brilliance) of such a plan. It might mean that anyone could create their own horcrux from their own death.
Or it might mean a few people would need to die to establish the initial network but then everyone with a network could create networks for others.
Adapting the Horcrux (2.0 in HPMoR) spell to make Amulets of Life Saving was the very first thing I thought of when considering ethical immortality in HPverse.