You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?

To fully understand my question, you need to understand the safety concerns regarding teleporters as explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI

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I wouldn’t, because the person that reappears aint me, its a fucking clone. Teleporters are murder machines. Star Trek is a silent massacre!

  • jsveiga@sh.itjust.works
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    If it opens a spacetime tunnel and I cross it with all my original atoms, yes.

    If it disintegrates me to 3d print a copy on the other side, no.

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        Stargate lore incorporates buffers holding your intermediate information, so it’s the same than Star Trek, actually.

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        Only if there is a DHD on both sides. I don’t want some in-house built crap that ignores the failsafes that the original builders put in place

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          Even then, you have pretty much no way of knowing if there’s an iris. So it’s all fun and games until SLAM, all your atoms gets squished into metal.

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          The general idea is a teleporter rips you apart and the atoms go to the destination to be reassembled in the previous state.

          Whether or not it kills you is speculation. Arguably you’re pretty dead if you’re ripped apart atom by atom, and then a clone is assembled using the same parts.

          But I don’t think it’s answerable if the recreated “you” is a clone or not until people can figure out what the mind even is.

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            Death is a state in which your biological functions cease. So no, it doesn’t kill you, since you function properly after.

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                  So you’d be fine with a scientist creating a perfect clone of you, and then killing you, letting the clone take your place?

                  If it had the same memories.

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                    Yes. Since i would still be alive and have no memories of being killed. There’s no distinguishion between a perfect clone and me. Sorry if you don’t like a “you” only being memories.

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                  It doesn’t matter to anyone but you, since the clone is indistinguishable from you, but you’re still dead.

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      Also if there’s any chance of a Fly situation happening I’m not going. Even if it’s like a .00000001% chance then fuck that lol

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        When just driving down a freeway, you have a much, much greater than 0.00000001% chance of suffering a worse outcome than the “fly situation” ;) .

        Just sayin’.