Of course. Fastest travel = best travel.

And the whole "you might die" sounds like big oil propaganda to me. I bet car accident deaths are way more likely.

Depends on whether they would work by actually moving me through space (using a wormhole or something) or by disintegrating me at point A and creating a copy at point B. In the latter case, I probably wouldn't use them.

Relevant Mini Fantasy Theater

I imagine even if there is a strong philosophical argument that it’s a “you die and it’s a copy/clone that comes out” in this scenario that people would still use it just from social and economic pressures. It would become normalized to work on the other side of the planet and just teleport there, your friends might be scattered across the globe, and not using the tech would put you at a massive disadvantage to everyone.

It’s a fun one to think about though - our consciousness is interrupted at different levels all the time (Sleep, injury, anesthesia etc), would a teeny tiny interruption from being rebuilt, make you any less you? Perhaps the scary thought is “you” aren’t something continuous, and that teleporting (dying/being rebuilt) isn’t really that different than just normal living.

All that said - I’d probably grow up with the technology and use it while trying my best to never ever think about the details!

For me, yes. I like the duplicator transporter thought problem, but I've always come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter. If what comes out doesn't know the difference, and the version left behind just stops existing, what's the difference? Maybe if the old version suffered from it I wouldn't, but if they just cease to exist then what's the functional difference between the two? If you believe there's a soul then maybe there's an issue, but I don't.

ITT: People who haven't seen The Prestige

I would encourage everyone else to use it. So roads will be less crowded and I can enjoy nature in its true beauty. Assuming of course Big Corpos haven't completely ruined it.

I mean at that point we probably have the tech to remotely pilot a James Cameron Avatar meat puppet, so I'd rather just do that.

And probably stay in the puppet all the time tbh because I would like to be tall and athletic. Hold the blue and alien parts tho pls.

I used to work with radiation and oh my GOD would having a disposable remote brain-controlled body be a fucking boon to that industry. Though probably at that point in tech history there will be very little if any need for human radioactive material handling

"It's eternity in there."
-- Rudy Foggia

Is this before or after the great oil and transportation war has taken its casualties?

Get out of bed (written from bed)

Schlock Mercenary has a great story arc on this.
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/

They use various teleport technologies over the years .thé trek version was used un a very troubling spying schème.

Well, for a robust teleport function it should first make a duplicate of you at the target location. Check that it went well and if all good, then blast the original you into a cloud of red fog.

In this climate? Hell nah. If the situation was different. Maybe.

I remember watching a documentary about teleportation that said that the biggest issue doesn't seem to be how to reconstruct the body rather than how you reconstruct the consciousness

I would be scared that the person on the other side is just a clone rather than me.

Emerson Green convinced me that p-zombies are plausible. So there’s no way to know if a teleporter would end your consciousness.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/

Yep, as long as I knew it wasn't going to kill me. I would still walk to the fridge though

Fuck it, lets teleport. Who cares if death is the means of transport if continuity is maintained

What happens if I splinch myself?

The Philadelphia experiment

If there were unlimited resources, copies would not matter, but our universe isn't build that way.

I don't belive in immortal souls with egos and all matter in our bodies is constantly changing, so all we are is forms in matter, like waves in water.

Teleporting is not a problem as long as it's perfect and there are no copies.