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!

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      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

      • @Sheltac
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        11 year ago

        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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      21 year ago

      is star trek really clone rather than teleport? I haven’t really watched much of it (only like 3 or 4 seasons).

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        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.