• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    That analogy doesn't apply at all. I'm pretty sure a teleporter would be used to move people further than they can walk. People thought trains would drive you insane because the human brain couldn't process speeds so fast and here we are. You can't die bumping into a person like you can a car crash and people drive every day. Even if it was an apt analogy people sacrifice safety for convenience all the time and think nothing of it.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        The train thing wasn't an analogy, people thought that would actually happen. People think similar things to any technology that comes along. Non teleporter users would be seen as 5g weirdos.

        As far as energy goes, you do know that it's a philosophical thought experiment and not am engineering project right? Schrodinger's cat is about uncertainty principle not actual cats.

        I'm not defending any technology dangerous not cause it literally doesn't fucking exist. The thought experiment is about conciousness and its relationship to the physical form and there are no morally correct answers. This is like someone discussing the ship of Theseus and you're talking about how the boat could possibly sink, it's not the point.

          • Segorinder [any]
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            3 years ago

            Okay, I don't want to carry on a debate after we've ended it but I wanted to reassure you here.

            Yes, it's correct that we have the ability to use the principle of teleportation, but at the level we're talking about, it's like saying that people have been putting feathers on arrows for thousands of years, so they could have used principles of aerodynamics to build 747s. There is a MASSIVE gap between the technology we have and the practical engineering that would be required. There will definitely not be human teleportation in your lifetime, or the lifetime of anyone currently alive. I strongly doubt there would be anything anywhere near star trek teleportation in the 24th century. It is a story telling device. You can worry about the philosophical issue if you want, but you absolutely do not need to be worrying about this actually affecting real people.