From: Paula Miner
To: Untitled Mail Group (DO NOT USE)
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: Ethics

Simply put, it's not our job to arbitrarily decide upon some code of ethics just because we're the first ones to do this (to our knowledge). That's the government's job to figure out, long after we've made enough headway for it to no longer apply to us.

It's fundamentally flawed to apply ethical reasoning to this anyway, because humanity's code of ethics is basеd upon nothing more than our knowledge and undеrstanding of life forms similar to ourselves. We don't have ethics for killing bacteria or plants - only for creatures that we can convincingly project our emotions onto. The "humans" in our VMs operate completely differently from us on a fundamental level, and therefore should not be taken any more seriously than a machine that's programmed to print "I feel sad".

We're engineers, not philosophers.

Paula Miner
Project Manager