Lumifer comments on Crazy Ideas Thread, Aug. 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 August 2015 08:43:11PM 6 points [-]

if I get the legal approval

Since when "legal" == "ethical"?

Would it violate deontological ethics for me to build a factory

No. What violates deontological ethics is not you running this program -- it's the actual killing at the end that matters.