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Hmm, didn't we do this for cloning? I remember hearing about this on Lex Fridman when he interviewed Max Tegmark.

If I recall correctly, the entire world is in agreement that cloning is illegal, and even that some people in China (could be just one) even went to prison for it.

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If you could use cloning to make lots of money more labs would be doing it.

You probably could make lots of money from human cloning, if it weren't illegal?

If I could clone myself, I'd make a few bug fixes.

I think the profitability of human cloning is significantly lower and slower than AI.

I mean isn't the end-game here growable organs and an unlimited supply of morally justifiable stem-cells for use in a variety of therapies? Given what Interferons etc... already cost, I'm struggling to see how there isn't a direct and established line of profitability for the domain.

Health is the only thing that gives an ulterior advantage to people involved with managing the companies, much more important than money or profitability. They can try those things on themselves behind the scenes to extend their lifespan/healthspan.

If they didn't do it with cloning it might be that there is some sort of mechanism preventing it that Nature installed in our brains.

Don't know if it extends to AI too though.

Cloning doesn't scale like code. Code information wants to be free and can be reproduced easily with mouse clicks, but cloning is a lot of hard work. All the instructions for cloning could be leaked on the internet and you still have to build a lab, hire people that know what they are doing, etc. And who can profit from making a bunch of damn kids in this era?

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