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What if the robot really enjoys fetching sandwiches? Sure, that may be because we programmed it to enjoy (experience a high fitness value for) obeying orders, but once we've created such a being, do we not have an ethical obligation to order it around, so that it can feel enjoyment?

Why should we go out of our way to build robots with similar ideas of what is pleasurable to us?

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To me, "ordering it around" implies the threat of negative consequences if it refuses. If it really enjoys fetching sandwiches, there's no reason we shouldn't ask it to; but if it decides for whatever reason that it doesn't want to fetch sandwiches even though it really enjoys doing so, we can't say "fetch me that sandwich or I'll activate your disutility circuits".

What if you programmed a human to enjoy finding sandwiches?

Well, now that you think of it we are all in a way programmed to enjoy certain things through classical conditioning.

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