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Comment author: [deleted] 13 December 2010 02:47:39PM *  1 point [-]

But if the creatures enjoy their situation and manage to self replicate or are immortal isn't the use of their labour more like a form of parasitism on the species?

One could argue parasitism is wrong but the act of creating them vunreable for parasitism seems neutral as long as they are capable of survival despite it.

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.

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