>>717080674He's not a hypocrite, he's mostly pro-progress to the point of getting his brain chipped while also feeling a bit concerned about it ("thoughts cross back")
He'd be a hypocrite if he altered his wife to be subservient or something, like the Mind-Machine Interface warriors or Yang's genejacks, which Lal takes offense to ("private army of demons")
At any rate, we don't know if he ever actually went through with the cloning, we just know about
>>717079941 and there's no follow up