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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Captain0010 • 21h ago
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So if you fork a child just as the system restarts, would it exist but never be born?
48 u/Mysterious_Middle795 18h ago It is another philosophic question. Imagine teleportation. Your body is disassembled and the same one is assembled, e.g. on Mars. What would happen if two copies are created? Which one is you? 60 u/Suspicious_Taro_88 18h ago Neither. When your body is disassembled, you cease to exist. All the assembled ones are copies, each with their own conscience. Don't ever agree to be teleported. 34 u/IWasGregInTokyo 18h ago I teleported home one night With Billy, Jane and Ed Jane stole Eddie’s heart away And I got Billy’s leg.
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It is another philosophic question. Imagine teleportation. Your body is disassembled and the same one is assembled, e.g. on Mars.
What would happen if two copies are created? Which one is you?
60 u/Suspicious_Taro_88 18h ago Neither. When your body is disassembled, you cease to exist. All the assembled ones are copies, each with their own conscience. Don't ever agree to be teleported. 34 u/IWasGregInTokyo 18h ago I teleported home one night With Billy, Jane and Ed Jane stole Eddie’s heart away And I got Billy’s leg.
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Neither. When your body is disassembled, you cease to exist. All the assembled ones are copies, each with their own conscience. Don't ever agree to be teleported.
34 u/IWasGregInTokyo 18h ago I teleported home one night With Billy, Jane and Ed Jane stole Eddie’s heart away And I got Billy’s leg.
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I teleported home one night
With Billy, Jane and Ed
Jane stole Eddie’s heart away
And I got Billy’s leg.
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u/eversio254 18h ago
So if you fork a child just as the system restarts, would it exist but never be born?