Ethics of teleportation.

[n00b1n8R]

ok, lets say we live in the year 2050 and teleportation has just been invented.

now this tele doen't scoop you up from one point in the universe and put you down in another, this dissasembles you to the atomic level, sends all the matter in your body to the reciever and re-assembles you.

would you use it?

[thehoodedsmack]

After JUST being invented? No. But I'd certainly use a tried and proven version of the idea.

[Kornman00]

:picsorstfu:

[teh lag]

I wouldn't. Me being dissasembled sounds really odd, not to mention that I don't know that the person who comes out won't just be a clone of me, just made from the matter of the original me. Something about that possibility just rubs me the wrong way.

[kungpow]

I would just for the hell of it ;)

[Hotrod]

I'd send somebody I don't like in through first just to make sure it works.

[Tweek]

After JUST being invented? No. But I'd certainly use a tried and proven version of the idea.
^

[Texrat]

I'd send somebody I don't like in through first just to make sure it works.

And you'd verify that... how?

[InnerGoat]

This should be an interesting thread.



No, at least not for humans. But you can go ahead and beam me that apple. Texrat probably knows why too. ;)

[CodeBrain]

I would rather go through a teleporter that has a plasma screen, and sends you through to a second plasma screen with the power of....well...transfer.

I really cant think of a better way to explain that.

[Con]

After JUST being invented? No. But I'd certainly use a tried and proven version of the idea.
It would have been tried and proven before they let you use it anyway ;p Nobody would be allowed to go through the thing unless the makers were absolutely certain it would be safe. That's why I vote yes.

[Zeph]

That's not how it works. Your body would need to be scanned at the atomic level and recreated elsewhere instantly. That of course would leave you with two of yourself, so the scanned body would need to be vaporized.

[Terin]

Oh my god, I was literally just thinking about this.

That kind of teleportation would basically kill you. While to others it seems like a person goes in one end and re-appears in the other fine, I doubt they would be the same person.

[Mass]

Yes to teleporting, no to subatomic reassembly.

Dimension folding ftw.

[Con]

assuming it didn't "clone" you, I would do it. because that way Zeph, you'd get one version of yourself that got teleported, then your real self which get's vapourized

[Dr Nick]

Nope. I'd rather wait until some people have gone through with no side effects.

[Skiiran]

Yes to teleporting, no to subatomic reassembly.

Dimension folding ftw.
This.


Nope. I'd rather wait until some people have gone through with no side effects.
Do you mean BESIDES being vaporized and reassembled into a clone?

[m13120]

That's not how it works. Your body would need to be scanned at the atomic level and recreated elsewhere instantly. That of course would leave you with two of yourself, so the scanned body would need to be vaporized.

Sounds like something from The Prestige.

[ExAm]

Personally, I don't like Teleportation in any form but one that actually puts YOU in the place you want to go, instead of scanning your structure and sending a copy, then destroying the original. The sent one won't be you, and you will die in some kind of killing device, never to see your destination.

[Limited]

Hell yes, I cant stand walking, is just like waiting, but worse. I wouldnt use it if it was still in testing or wasnt common practise, but say like 5 years after it was working fine I would. I hope they work some things out like that in the future.

[Neuro Guro]

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[Hurrvish]

:gonk:

I'd try it out, if there is something irresistible on the other side.

[Wakeboy1337]

Sounds like something from The Prestige.
That movie was confusing, but I liked it. Saw it when it came out



Heres a question for you all: If there were teleports that worked like you could stick your hand through and it would come out the other teleport, would you get 2 of them really close together facing each other and then proceed to have anal sex with yourself?

-Neuro-


NO

[Neuro Guro]

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[Con]

I know YOU would do it, neuro ;p

[TeeKup]

Heres a question for you all: If there were teleports that worked like you could stick your hand through and it would come out the other teleport, would you get 2 of them really close together facing each other and then proceed to have anal sex with yourself?

-Neuro-


I'm going to be honest and say.

Yes.

[Zeph]

assuming it didn't "clone" you, I would do it. because that way Zeph, you'd get one version of yourself that got teleported, then your real self which get's vapourized
The new you wouldn't know the difference. Same molecules, same electrochemical activity, "same air" in your lungs....

[Neuro Guro]

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[Archon23]

Damnit I already repped you ounce :gonk:

[TeeKup]

I would so do that.

[Pooky]

I would so do that.

blow yourself? You flaming gay bi. :downs:

[Phopojijo]

And you'd verify that... how?Hey Texrat! Bush's weakness is behind the green field thingie!

[Con]

The new you wouldn't know the difference. Same molecules, same electrochemical activity, "same air" in your lungs....
Exactly, but the real you would be killed. Your conscience wouldn't be transfered. You would walk up, ask to be teleported, and see yourself get cloned with the clone at the destination. The new you wouldn't mind so much, but YOU yourself would then get vaporized. You would never get to visit the destination.

[Mass]

Heres a question for you all: If there were teleports that worked like you could stick your hand through and it would come out the other teleport, would you get 2 of them really close together facing each other and then proceed to have anal sex with yourself?

-Neuro-


First of all, yes.
Second,:lol:.

[DaneO'Roo]

Heres a question for you all: If there were teleports that worked like you could stick your hand through and it would come out the other teleport, would you get 2 of them really close together facing each other and then proceed to have anal sex with yourself?

-Neuro-


LAFFLE

[Rob Oplawar]

@Neuro: dammit, lol gets overused, so you switch to rofl, and that gets overused so you switch to lmao. anyway, the meaning of "roflmao" has been diluted somewhat, but in this case it is literally* true.

@The topic: Nah, I'd never do that, because I'm too unsure of what is actually me. Sure I'm confident that if I went in, I would come back out in that nobody else would be able to tell the difference, but would the consciousness that is me be retained? Would a new consciousness with my memories and personality take over? Would "I" just stop percieving the universe because "I" have lost contact with my body? Or is "me" nothing more than my molecules, in which case it's ridiculous to worry about it? IDK, I just wouldn't want to risk it.

Although, I'd use the hell out of it for sending packages and stuff.


P.S. Portal is short, but sweet. I love it!



*literally. I had to have my ass surgically reattached.

[ExAm]

@Neuro: dammit, lol gets overused, so you switch to rofl, and that gets overused so you switch to lmao. anyway, the meaning of "roflmao" has been diluted somewhat, but in this case it is literally* true.

@The topic: Nah, I'd never do that, because I'm too unsure of what is actually me. Sure I'm confident that if I went in, I would come back out in that nobody else would be able to tell the difference, but would the consciousness that is me be retained? Would a new consciousness with my memories and personality take over? Would "I" just stop percieving the universe because "I" have lost contact with my body? Or is "me" nothing more than my molecules, in which case it's ridiculous to worry about it? IDK, I just wouldn't want to risk it.

Although, I'd use the hell out of it for sending packages and stuff.


P.S. Portal is short, but sweet. I love it!



*literally. I had to have my ass surgically reattached.EXACTLY my point, but said better.

[Leiukemia]

No. Because with my luck the damn thing would screw up and wouldn't vaporize the original me. And then there would be 2 of me, and the other one would probably try to kill me, cause hey that's what I would do. Somehow the original me just couldn't bring myself to kill the second me. And then....

Fuck to be honest I had this all thought up and I lost it :/

[n00b1n8R]

That's not how it works. Your body would need to be scanned at the atomic level and recreated elsewhere instantly. That of course would leave you with two of yourself, so the scanned body would need to be vaporized.

that's what I meant.


Yes to teleporting, no to subatomic reassembly.

Dimension folding ftw.

tbh.
I would only consider using this form of teleportation for transporting non-living things (though plants would be ok).

I would never use it on myself because it's killing my conscienseness (unless I was feeling suicidal but cbf to do it properly).


blow yourself? You flaming gay bi. :downs:
that's like saying fapping is gay :saddowns:

[Rob Oplawar]

that's like saying fapping is gay :saddowns:
yeah but you've gotta admit that's still a little... extreme.

you know, i was gonna say something, but... but, no. yeah no. nevermind.

[klange]

This = fail.
Slipspace ftw.

[Dr Nick]

Do you mean BESIDES being vaporized and reassembled into a clone?Yeah, basically.

[Kornman00]

Remote viewing ftw

osry, was this thread not derailed already?

[n00b1n8R]

yeah but you've gotta admit that's still a little... extreme.

you know, i was gonna say something, but... but, no. yeah no. nevermind.

because a moist warm orofice would be way inferior to doing the one hand waltz with ms handy :rolleyes:

[Rob Oplawar]

wow. this thread died. I think Neuro killed it. Well, that settles it, then. We have to shoot him. I'll go get my 12-gauge.

[Emmzee]

I would rather go through a teleporter that turns my matter into data and sends it at subspace transmission speed.

[ExAm]

What would that feel like... or would it feel like anything at all?

[n00b1n8R]

it wouldn't feel like anything because you'd be dead.

[Bodzilla]

because a moist warm orofice would be way inferior to doing the one hand waltz with ms Palmer and her 5 daughters* :rolleyes:
:eng101:

[Texrat]

Screw the ethics-- we're getting closer!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/10/human.teleportation/index.html

[Bodzilla]

(O)______________o

[kungpow]

that seems like cloning almost lol

[ExAm]

It IS cloning. The kind in Sci-Fi novels.