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Exactly. What if there's a bug and when your "copy" is created at destination original is not destroyed? Would you agree to be killed, should your copy agree in
by neverminder 10y ago
Exactly. What if there's a bug and when your "copy" is created at destination original is not destroyed? Would you agree to be killed, should your copy agree instead? Even worse, what if there's an anomaly in transporting data, original is destroyed and copy emerges disfigured, dead or something in between? Teleportation scares the shit out of me.
- avip 10y agoAs in the quite ancient https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc
- astrodust 10y agoOriginal NFB source: https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/ https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/
- manuelflara 10y agoThis reminds me of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.
- zo1 10y agoIn case anyone isn't aware, you've just read a spoiler.
- gm-conspiracy 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chances_(TNG_episode) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chances_(TNG_episode)
- bigtunacan 10y agoDid you by chance read the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur" or see the episode of The Outer Limits based off it? It presents this exact same dilemma. Up until that point I never really considered the potential ethical ramifications of teleportation.
- CM30 10y agoTake full advantage of it? I mean, cloning things has its advantages too. Could be a good idea for some people to deliberate screw up the process and drastically cut down on their daily workload. Or perhaps as a way for the less ethical to not kill or work alongside their accidental copies, but ship 'em off to join the army or something. Teleportation going wrong can be just as exciting as prospect as it working out fine. Cloning has a lot of useful applications as well.