I order to 'reprogram' humans you need to expose them to huge amounts of suffering and mental manipulations to achieve the desired outcome. With machines, assu

I order to 'reprogram' humans you need to expose them to huge amounts of suffering and mental manipulations to achieve the desired outcome. With machines, assuming you could build their personality from the ground up, you wouldn't have such quagmires. In essence it would be the difference between hacking down a tree and pouring cement (or using nanomachines) to build a home. One of them is more wasteful than the other. However things get weird if you can only train them and or clone their neural nets. If you create a mental model and cut and paste a version on your USB 11.0, you get with same problems teleporter in Star Trek do. Namely, which one is original and whether it constitutes a death/rebirth?