From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 12:34:18 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Oh, now this is really interesting. The BBC is reporting
> that face transplants may be feasible soon and there should
> be some discussion of the ethics of doing this.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2516181.stm
>
> /.:
> http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/1639243&mode=thread&tid=134%
>
> Has this ever been discussed or thought about on the list before?
> (Maybe morphable faces or cameleon faces -- but actual *transplants*?)
>
> So if you can transplant faces, why can't you transplant fingerprints.
> There has to be a Hollywood adventure film in these ideas someplace.
> And it goes without saying at least a series of 7 horror films.
"Face Off". http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119094
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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