If you could have your body destroyed and immediately recreated somewhere else for $1million dollars

Everyone that accepts the million is a moron: they might as well tell the benefactor to donate the money to charity; it's basically the same thing, since it won't be you to enjoy them, but just your clone. You'll be too dead to do it.

Honestly, there's no teleportation that involves the moving of single atoms that would make me accept the deal. The moment enough atoms are removed, you're just a corpse with a big hole, waiting to be recycled into a new human being that won't be you. The only teleportation I'd accept involves portals or wormholes, stuff that doesn't mess with my "continuity of self" in any way.
 
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It seems in doubt that such a thing as a soul exists, and yet there is some hard to quantify element of continuity that is almost certainly not preserved in such a situation. Even though for all sensible purposes my duplicate would be me, I still value my continuity more than 1kk dinero.

It's funny how that is though; my duplicate would feel exactly as I do, think exactly as I do, and know all that I know. They would perceive continuity, and yet would not be a direct continuation of me. I wonder if we shall never understand the nature of continuity


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why would I want to reduce my wealth to have this shitty Manlet body a second time?
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With your 1e6 dolares you could have your legs extanded in Thailand. Enjoy being bed bound for 6 months
 
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Yes I would. I am only made of a certain amount of atoms placed in a certain way shocked by electricity to make them move, that's what makes me, me. I could be dispanded and re-created a million times, but If the same parts are placed togheter in the exact same way, It still would be me.
 
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Mysterious Capitalist said:
Everyone that accepts the million is a moron: they might as well tell the benefactor to donate the money to charity; it's basically the same thing, since it won't be you to enjoy them, but just your clone. You'll be too dead to do it.

Honestly, there's no teleportation that involves the moving of single atoms that would make me accept the deal. The moment enough atoms are removed, you're just a corpse with a big hole, waiting to be recycled into a new human being that won't be you. The only teleportation I'd accept involves portals or wormholes, stuff that doesn't mess with my "continuity of self" in any way.
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Space is invisible mind dust, and stars are but wishes. Taking aside the hippy soul stuff, all we are in physical terms is information. What is 'you' is theoretically completely non-unique.
 
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This is like that book Old Man’s War where they get retirees to enlist and they transfer their memories into a new badass killing machine of a body and throw them against the xeno scourge.

If I was an old fuck and near death, sure. I’ll clock out a few years early to help the war effort or for a million bucks to blow. It’s basically using a continue.
 
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Douglas Reynholm said:
Space is invisible mind dust, and stars are but wishes. Taking aside the hippy soul stuff, all we are in physical terms is information. What is 'you' is theoretically completely non-unique.
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I don't doubt that the clone would be equal to me to the quantum level and indistinguishable from me to *any* outside observer, no matter how minutely accurate they are. And the clone would indeed believe to be me by the fact that everything about them is what I am right now. And yet, the moment you kill me and disintegrate me, is the moment the me that is existing right now stops... well, existing, to make space for a new me that's created with their new body that's exactly like mine with memories exactly like mine and physical information just like mine. I'd tell you that the clone isn't me, but I'd be busy being dead; a bunch of atoms recycled into another human being that's me in everything aside from the fact that they're not the me that exists right now, but someone exactly like me that would eventually exists at that point, in a new consciousness continuity.

It's like in a videogame where you can make custom characters: if a character dies and you copy the template to make a new, identical one and move on, is the new character just a continuation of the old one? From appearance down to the lines of code that make the character, they are the same; and yet, the first instance of the character did die to make way to the second. There was a disruption, and that's enough for me to decline it.
 
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