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Me, every time the transporter debate kicks off. (europe.pub)
submitted 1 week ago by [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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[–] 18 points 1 week ago (19 children)

The bit I find worrying is that you'd have to trust you will be 1:1 reconstructed at the other side.

What happens if there's an error on the reconstruction side and it either fails to reconstruct you back properly, or at all?

Or what if some malicious party injects something into, or removes part of your reconstruction?

There'd be no way for you to know from the other side, so you could just be killed or maimed in an instant, and there'd be nothing you could do to stop it

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    What do you care? That's not you on the other side, just your copy.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    If you're taking teleportation, you've likely already accepted (or are ignorant of) the fact that you as a literal being will perish - but you survive conceptually through your copy.

    So I care if that copy gets made. If it doesn't, then I'm not just literally dead, but conceptually dead too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I read one scifi novel where the teleportation was almost instant across the galaxy, the caveat was that it duplicated you, so the original walked out of the booth, while the copy was the one who actually went somewhere. Aside from the issues of having several of you around if you went back to the destination, not every teleport was great for the original either. One instance where they were trying to escape some creature planetside, and as they ran into the booth the main wondered if they'd be the one who made it to safety, or not. Of course next chapter picks up with the safe one's pov....

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    There's a game called SOMA that plays around with a similar idea - but for digitization.

    And of course the answer's quite straightforward. If you're the copy that got in the chair, you're the one left behind.

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