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Personally, I don't think ethics should stand in the way of development. Science, medicine and technology could advance even faster if we were willing to put ethics aside. Yeah, it's going to hurt some people, but it will benefit the vast majority of the world. Sacrifice a dozen to save thousands, totally worth it.
I dont support doing unethical experiments. That being said if a country already performed those inhumane experiments and the data was reliable, I would have no qualms about using the data. Dispite it originally coming from a dark source.
Throwing away said data is just as atrocious as the experiment itself as that means the experiment was wholly wasted, thus the suffering was for nothing.
I don't want ethics abandoned but I know what you mean. We already create miniature, lab-grown human brains known as "brain organoids" and have seen coordinated activity between them but we always stop the experiments if it seems consciousness could be possible.
I often find myself wondering if, free of limitations like the human skull, we could actually grow a biological superintelligence faster than we can create a superhuman general AI.
Either superintelligence could potentially vastly improve our understanding of science and vastly improve our lives, but that's also creating a lifeform that's the only one of its kind and essentially forcing a purpose on it all while it deserves not just human rights but likely something more if we continue to follow the same line of thinking that says human rights outweigh the rights of other animals; it's another species and one superior to us in the ways we are to animals.
Another reason I'm less hesitant to think about this is that the same issue actually still applies to a superintelligent general AI which has been deemed conscious, artificiality be damned, and we're more likely to treat a biological superhuman intelligence properly. It's a difficult issue. We can say we'll give them a choice as to what to do, but they will have never had a choice in whether or not to be born and at the point that they are we would kind of be committing murder to put them down if they wished it. Then again, no one chooses to be born.
Depends on what the experiments are. If there was some way to use death row inmates for something like that, maybe, but I don't trust the gov't to do anything right. So, I would not support something like that.
Did you ever read that CDC study they did on black people in I believe the 60s? The one where they told blacks they were treating their syphilis and told them they were trying new experimental drugs when in reality they were just documenting their symptoms one by one before their death. If I remember right they killed about 100 people in that study.
Whats your opinion on that?