Duplication poll

[jack]

Amongst people who would teleport:

Suppose you can duplicate yourself somewhere you want to be, and then destroy yourself instantly and painlessly; or we live in a matrix and you can duplicate your process and shut down the old one; or your brain has a perfect back up which can be brought back if you die; would you?

Yes
Yes, but I don't know if I'd have the nerve
No
I would in theory, but in practice there'd be too great a risk something would go wrong.
I can't answer because I think any teleporting or backup wouldn't contain my soul. I may have checked another answer as what I would do if I didn't.
Comments:

Comments

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

However strong the reason, I still feel that

- To be copied and distroyed to be recreated elsewhere
and
- To die for a good reason and be replaced by a copy

are two very different issues. They're both being distroyed to get recreated, but the later has additional reasoning behind it.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I wondered if anyone would disagree with my questions, but didn't want to pre-empt that.

I think I see where we're going with this, but I'm not sure. Could those two be brought in to line? Would it matter if I made the backup knowing I would almost certainly die and the backup be used?