Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
by neverminder on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:07AM
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Exactly. What if there's a bug and when your "copy" is created at destination original is not destroyed? Would you agree to be killed, should your copy agree instead? Even worse, what if there's an anomaly in transporting data, original is destroyed and copy emerges disfigured, dead or something in between? Teleportation scares the shit out of me.
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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
by avip on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:29AM
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As in the quite ancient https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc
Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
by astrodust on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @05:45PM
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Original NFB source: https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/
Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
by CM30 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @01:03PM
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Take full advantage of it?
I mean, cloning things has its advantages too. Could be a good idea for some people to deliberate screw up the process and drastically cut down on their daily workload. Or perhaps as a way for the less ethical to not kill or work alongside their accidental copies, but ship 'em off to join the army or something.
Teleportation going wrong can be just as exciting as prospect as it working out fine. Cloning has a lot of useful applications as well.
Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
by bigtunacan on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:02PM
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Did you by chance read the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur" or see the episode of The Outer Limits based off it?
It presents this exact same dilemma. Up until that point I never really considered the potential ethical ramifications of teleportation.
Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
by gm-conspiracy on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @10:17AM
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