I suggest social shunning of people who seem to be torturing creatures
substantially different from themselves. A positive prospect is that
the most useful experiments will probably be best done on copies of
yourself - that gives you the most info about improving yourself.
So experimenting on creatures very different from yourself is already
suspicious. Especially if those other creatures are smart enough do
decide for themselves what experiments would help them improves
themselves. The problem is experiments on "dumb" different creatures.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/