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Re:Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction by kaibee on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:02PM (#37092523)
> If the Star Trek transporter could replicate you would you care if it killed your existing copy in the process?

Uh, obviously?

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Re:Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction by esafak on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:46PM (#37093108)
It's not obvious to me. Why is transporter death bad if you are identically replicated ?
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Re:Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction by xcv123 on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:19PM (#37094177)
Because the transporter replica is not you. That is a separate person with their own separate consciousness. You are murdered and someone else is born.
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Re:Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction by janalsncm on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:09PM (#37095156)
Murder is a crime as decided by humans. There are circumstances where killing another person is not a crime, because we have agreed it is not a crime. A doctor turning off life support can be fully legal even though it results in the destruction of a human life. There is no ultimate principle at work. The law is a set of rules that we have (implicitly) agreed to.

Likewise, we as a society could decide that a person has all of their rights transferred to their replica as soon as they walked into a transporter.

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