Is there any significant difference between finding sentient beings who self-modify into becoming sentient catgirls for the purpose of serving you in your volcano fortress and engineering de novo sentient catgirls who desire to serve you in your volcano fortress?
Short answer is “yes, probably” but depends a lot on what you mean by… well, basically each of the words in the sentence. (There’s a bunch of other sequence posts that are relevant in some way to this question although I’m not sure I can find them easily offhand)
An answer of “There is probably one but I can’t figure out what it is.” is equivalent to an answer of “I can’t find one.”
I’m not making a mathematical conjecture that is probably true but might not have a proof; I’m asking what is wrong with engineering fully sentient catgirls who want to serve people in a volcano fortress that isn’t also wrong with allowing existing people to follow their dreams of changing themselves into sentient catgirls and serving people in a volcano fortress.
Is there any significant difference between finding sentient beings who self-modify into becoming sentient catgirls for the purpose of serving you in your volcano fortress and engineering de novo sentient catgirls who desire to serve you in your volcano fortress?
Short answer is “yes, probably” but depends a lot on what you mean by… well, basically each of the words in the sentence. (There’s a bunch of other sequence posts that are relevant in some way to this question although I’m not sure I can find them easily offhand)
An answer of “There is probably one but I can’t figure out what it is.” is equivalent to an answer of “I can’t find one.”
I’m not making a mathematical conjecture that is probably true but might not have a proof; I’m asking what is wrong with engineering fully sentient catgirls who want to serve people in a volcano fortress that isn’t also wrong with allowing existing people to follow their dreams of changing themselves into sentient catgirls and serving people in a volcano fortress.