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Consent plus the ability to reset make it at least possible to respect ethics in such experiments, unlike with biological organisms.
by randallsquared 3y ago
Consent plus the ability to reset make it at least possible to respect ethics in such experiments, unlike with biological organisms.
- notamy 3y ago> Consent Which we could likely easily engineer into whatever system eventually exists, once that point is reached. I doubt anyone who makes such a thing would intentionally engineer it to NOT consent to their experimentation. > Consent plus the ability to reset For a hypothetical example: If I said I would perform <some psychological experiment> on you, but it's okay because I can force consent into you and then perfectly reset your brain and body back to how they were pre-experiment, would you still be okay with it? This may be a bit of an extreme way of looking at it, but the ethical concerns matter.
- randallsquared 3y agoIf you use force to obtain “consent”, then I would argue that it isn’t ethical and maybe that it’s a contradiction in terms. If you know how to create a person who would be enthusiastic about consenting, doing that doesn’t seem unethical. For example, after someone chooses to consent, copying them — I would argue that this is just creating a consenting participant, and not unethical (where that person is concerned).