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Future you (or "you") won't give a shit. Present you may or may not have cause to worry. A simple thought experiment: We somehow copy me, but leave the origina
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago
Future you (or "you") won't give a shit. Present you may or may not have cause to worry.
A simple thought experiment: We somehow copy me, but leave the original alive after reviving the copy. Then we kill the original. As the original, I'm gonna be unhappy about that. The exact time you kill me doesn't change that, so killing me then copying me then reviving the copy at the very least isn't a trivially unobjectionable process. As to whether it's actually unobjectionable, that's probably way above our paygrades philosophically.
There's a great star trek episode where Riker gets duplicated in the transporter, leading to years of jokes (and philosophical debates) that the transporter doesn't send you anywhere, it just copies you and kills the original. Real fun to think about.
- Loughla 7y agoVaguely connected to this conversation now, the Daystrom Institute subreddit is one of my most favorite things that exists.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoExcept they went out of their way in that episode to explain that transporters absolutely do not work that way and this was a very strange occurrence that they could only guess at the cause of.
- vermilingua 7y agoWell they would say that, otherwise, who would transport? ;)