The way I put it, it creates an adult human with absolute certainty. There may or may not be an actual, physical test tube involved; it could be an chessmaster AI, or whatnot. The implementation shouldn’t matter. For completeness, assume it’ll be an adult human who’ll live forever, so the implementation becomes an evanescent fraction.
The intended exception is that you can turn it off (destroying the (potential-)human at that stage), any time from DNA string to adult. There are, of course, no legal consequences or whatnot; steel-man as appropriate.
Given that, in what time period—if any—is turning it off okay?
Personally, I’ll go with “Up until the brain starts developing, then gradually less okay, based on uncertainty about brain development as well as actual differences in value.” I care very little about potential people.
(Not saying you misread me, but:)
The way I put it, it creates an adult human with absolute certainty. There may or may not be an actual, physical test tube involved; it could be an chessmaster AI, or whatnot. The implementation shouldn’t matter. For completeness, assume it’ll be an adult human who’ll live forever, so the implementation becomes an evanescent fraction.
The intended exception is that you can turn it off (destroying the (potential-)human at that stage), any time from DNA string to adult. There are, of course, no legal consequences or whatnot; steel-man as appropriate.
Given that, in what time period—if any—is turning it off okay?
Personally, I’ll go with “Up until the brain starts developing, then gradually less okay, based on uncertainty about brain development as well as actual differences in value.” I care very little about potential people.