The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoIt's totally safe. What are you afraid of?media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up1668arrow-down18
arrow-up1660arrow-down1imageIt's totally safe. What are you afraid of?media.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square74linkfedilink
minus-squaren0respect@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 days agoIf, by ‘teleport’, we mean: a machine scans your data and sends it to be rebuilt, then I wonder: why stop at 1? You have the data, make 9001 of me! The creation of such a machine may actually be dystopia. Human diversity may plummet, with most of us in a predetermined role as clones.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoIf any clone of you has a predetermined role, doesn’t that apply to yourself too? Since you’re the original clone
minus-squareSSTF@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days ago“If you want a picture of the future, imagine an infinite amount of Tom Rikers hitting on any female face – for ever.”
If, by ‘teleport’, we mean: a machine scans your data and sends it to be rebuilt, then I wonder: why stop at 1? You have the data, make 9001 of me!
The creation of such a machine may actually be dystopia. Human diversity may plummet, with most of us in a predetermined role as clones.
If any clone of you has a predetermined role, doesn’t that apply to yourself too? Since you’re the original clone
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine an infinite amount of Tom Rikers hitting on any female face – for ever.”
Bobiverse it is, then.