A company offers $100k to parents who'll let them genetically engineer their kids to genuinely, with the whole of their being, love working for the company, such that spending their lives workin there will result in subjectively higher quality of life than a normal person. This:
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ty this tweet directly inspired this poll which will hopefully not get me cancelled
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A company figures out how to genetically engineer animals such that they love when humans engage sexually with them; this makes them feel deep joy, and they eagerly want it. The company then sells them to zoophiles, who then make the animals deeply happy. This is:
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Nay! Simply because companies are pretty much paper clip optimizers, that will gladly take the opportunity to exploit those workers even more. Until an equilibrium is reached where the companies profits are maximized while worker satisfaction is just over "I'm going to quit"
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Mass layoffs as BraveNew™️ goes out of business, thousands of genetically optimised workers march into the sea in a mass suicide. Pictures at 11.
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I get this is a gedankenexperiment but how could you use genetic manipulation to get someone to "love" something so specifically. I mean you could probably find a way to make them more altruistic in general. I don't think there is a "love Coca Cola" gene/s.
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i think this is not good becayse it's unstable - you need everyone's happiness meters to be independent and somewhat diverse to keep society from devolving into a state where all people wholeheartedly pursue a small number of arbitrary and potentially socially destructive goals
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