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Originally Posted by mindstalk
But Zell wasn't talking about meat-bob after drawing breath, but about meat-bob's genome (and initial development, esp. for a bioroid). And while genomes are messy code at best, there are some sliders, like the oxytocin voles.
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They are still very crude methods, adding to the moral hazard of sapient GMOs. If I do a bad job adjusting the attitude of LAI-Bob, I can click "Undo" and he's all better. If I do a bad job working in the attitude tendencies of Meat-Bob, I've created life-long difficulties for him and his cohort. The price of failure in human and parahuman suffering is much greater in one case than the other, so there can be no real ethical equivalency.