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Well, except the "stop liking what I don't like" crowd.

Yup, and like with cloning, they might be firmly opposed irregardless of whether it's right or wrong. For example if cloning tech were perfected to the point it was provably safer than natural conception, why shouldn't it be allowed?

As for this, again I've also pondered the possibility of biological androids, that is brainless humans with artificial synthetic brains. There really is no reason for there to be anything wrong with this. An AI or AGI could even remotely control multiple bodies from a local server in your home... the bodies would be no different than remote controlled appliances, these bodies would also be your property.

The problem again is, that some might want to infringe on the rights of others through the law, and that's a big no no. Hopefully the developers of agi, and thus superior weaponry, thus power, will side with liberty. If they do it doesn't matter what the majority thinks, the law of the land is determined by the entities with greatest power, right now that's the governments with their military force, but if a superior force emerges the rights of governments all over the world can be contested.

By the time we can build the AI that will fit into the chassis, we will be able to build a convincing chassis out of non biological materials; probably even ones that can self-repair.

This depends on the viability of hard nano, high levels of self repair may be impossible if hard nano is not possible.

Biology on the other hand can last for over a month without energy sources, aka food(and two weeks without water if optimized probably more might be possible), is there any battery tech on the horizon that can last over a month of full activity? Most robots with lots of motors last far far less than that. That's not the only thing biology is capable of, a few genetic tweaks and self-repair can be increased above and beyond what's possible in humans including regrowth of limbs.

Also a few genetic tweaks, and the body becomes ageless, remaining at whatever age is set indefinitely.

If hard nano turns out to be impossible as some seem to believe, then matching a maintenance free self repairing biological body will not be possible.

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