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Why Teleportation Would Kill You

CGP Grey · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Philosophy & ethicsConsciousness & cognition

What it is

CGP Grey asks whether Star Trek-style teleportation would kill you and recreate a copy, working through the philosophy of identity and the Ship of Theseus. It is a short animated explainer.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to in threads about mind uploading and teleportation as a good, accessible look at personal identity.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “Fun video on the philosophy of teleportation and identity.”

    rendezvouscp, 2016-03 · Recommendation · in “If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too”

  2. “CGP Grey has a good look at the question wrt Star Trek teleportation”

    Good look at the Ship of Theseus applied to transporters.

    macintux, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal””

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Topics: teleportation, ship of theseus, identity, star trek, thought experiment

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