• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    So what would happen if the original wasn’t “destructively” scanned and was just scanned. 2 would exist. Ergo, you’re dying each time.

    I’ve thought about this for over 25 years at this point. Ever since the first journeyman project game and moment where you teleport to work and it’s like you die, then come back to life, because that’s the only way it could ever work. Unless there’s some weird physics shit I don’t understand where you like slip through a wormhole or something. I don’t know I suck at that kind of physics

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      44 minutes ago

      If, by ‘teleport’, we mean: a machine scans your data and sends it to be rebuilt, then I wonder: why stop at 1? You have the data, make 9001 of me!

      The creation of such a machine may actually be dystopia. Human diversity may plummet, with most of us in a predetermined role as clones.

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        37 minutes ago

        “If you want a picture of the future, imagine an infinite amount of Tom Rikers hitting on any female face – for ever.”