Spock Must Die!James Blish
Spock Must Die!
by James Blish · first published 1970
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…teleporting chief would have to shoot the original As an aside, there was a great Star Trek novel where there was a long range transporter invented that accidentally cloned people. (I think it was "Spock Must Die")
on “Facebook's std::vector optimization” ↗That's the plot of "Spock Must Die" by James Blish, the first Star Trek novel ever written. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die!
on “A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life” ↗There's a Star Trek novel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die!) where IIRC they explore how the transporter is sort of destroying the original you and recreating a new one somewhere else. It's a legit philosophical question, but practically speaking, the people…
on “Your mind will not be uploaded (2014)” ↗A variation on this story was the plot of the very first Star Trek novel: Spock Must Die! (I think there is a beaten up copy buried in my old closet at my mother's house, from when I was a boy.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die!
on “Under anesthesia, where do our minds go?” ↗