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Author Topic: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)  (Read 24566 times)

MikaTheCrazy

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NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« on: March 16, 2012, 08:25:57 am »
The current idea for teleportation is basically destroying the original and making a copy elsewhere.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2012, 08:26:50 am »
...

And?
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2012, 08:28:22 am »
Quantum mechanics are weird so your average layman shouldn't even be bothered about it.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2012, 08:29:47 am »
So? It's not like your clone would be able to tell the difference.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2012, 08:30:38 am »
And neither would you (being too non-existent to notice).

It's win-win really.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2012, 08:36:28 am »
Yeah, I never had any truck with teleportation. I'm too agnostic to believe souls or some crap will be preserved or something. Give me wormholes, THEN we'll talk.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2012, 08:40:42 am »
Let's assume that there was a slim chance that this process would go wrong, and you would be vaporised. This chance is so great that with popular use, 1 in 100 people are killed by this machine. 1% of your population will die in a teleportation accident. Does that scare you? Is this number too high for you to be comfortable with?

Then you better never ride in a car again.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2012, 08:41:08 am »
If you use recombinant teleportation....

You're letting the terrorists win.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #8 on: March 16, 2012, 08:48:59 am »
Quote from: Max White on March 16, 2012, 08:40:42 am
Let's assume that there was a slim chance that this process would go wrong, and you would be vaporised. This chance is so great that with popular use, 1 in 100 people are killed by this machine. 1% of your population will die in a teleportation accident. Does that scare you? Is this number too high for you to be comfortable with?

Then you better never ride in a car again.
This depends heavily on the timeframe of the statistic.
1% Chance to die in a life time using teleportation? Eh, whatever.
1% Chance to die every time using teleportation? Hell, no, get that lovecraftian machine away from me!
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #9 on: March 16, 2012, 08:52:01 am »
Except you're basically vaporised/destroyed every time you use it anyway, that 1% chance is more like the odds that the machine screws up in rebuilding you at the other end leading to thee inconvienence of restoration from backup.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2012, 08:53:47 am »
1% per capita, not 1% per trip... I assure you, 1 in 100 trips and I would be bludgeoning the hell-machina with the nearest lampshade.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2012, 08:55:41 am »
This has always actually really bothered me.
Sure, the copy of you might have all your own memories and feel like they're a continuation of your self, but you'll be dead. I don't believe in souls or anything, but the continuation of your personal consciousness would end.

I read a story once which had this form of teleportation, except the destruction of the original occured after the copy was made and was manual (that is, voluntary suicide). Them happening at the same time doesn't make it different! You still die! D:
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2012, 08:59:42 am »
Yeah, the really tricky thing is when the copy is successfully made, but there's a delay in destroying the original.

"Sorry, we'll be able to atomize you in and hour or two. In the meantime, here's some tea and biscuits for your trouble."
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2012, 09:00:52 am »
Quote from: DeKaFu on March 16, 2012, 08:55:41 am
This has always actually really bothered me.
Sure, the copy of you might have all your own memories and feel like they're a continuation of your self, but you'll be dead. I don't believe in souls or anything, but the continuation of your personal consciousness would end.

I read a story once which had this form of teleportation, except the destruction of the original occured after the copy was made and was manual (that is, voluntary suicide). Them happening at the same time doesn't make it different! You still die! D:
Yea... So? I'm ok with this.
It isn't like you would notice your lack of existence, and the emotional ties that commit you to life would all be attended to by your clone. It would be fine.

Quote from: rhesusmacabre on March 16, 2012, 08:59:42 am
Yeah, the really tricky thing is when the copy is successfully made, but there's a delay in destroying the original.

"Sorry, we'll be able to atomize you in and hour or two. In the meantime, here's some tea and biscuits for your trouble."
I think the only ethical thing to do would be tell them that it didn't work at all, and they will need some time to fix it.
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Re: NEVER use teleportation (if it's invented in our lifetimes.)
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2012, 09:01:28 am »
Why not keep them both in that case? :D
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