Think Like a Dinosaur
by James Patrick Kelly · first published 2003
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on “Remotely Exploitable Type Confusion in Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server, etc” ↗Did you by chance read the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur" or see the episode of The Outer Limits based off it? It presents this exact same dilemma. Up until that point I never really considered the potential ethical ramifications of teleportation.
on “'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings” ↗It's "Think Like a Dinosaur", based on the short story by James Patrick Kelly [0]. It deals more or less with the transporer issue described in the linked article. I remembet having read it when it was first published in Asimov's…
on “Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?” ↗Thank you, and the equation was balanced. Think like a Dinosaur, James Patrick Kelly
on “ID This SciFi Short Story” ↗For me the archetypal story of the genre is Think Like a Dinosaur: The story postulates a transportation device (supervised by a dinosaur-like race of aliens) which can transmit an exact copy of a person's body to distant planets. The original body is disintegrated…
on “€2.6M spent for a book at auction, believed they would own the IP” ↗This concept is addressed in the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur"[0], which also became an episode of "The Outer Limits". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
on “Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?” ↗…matter copying. Occasionally something goes wrong and the source is not "deconstructed" properly by the equipment so the procedure is for the transporter crew to terminate the original person. PS It was "Think Like A Dinosaur"
on “Transplant an organ? Why not an entire body?” ↗Or perhaps the same idea was in the air in the same sense that Think Like a Dinosaur and The Prestige had the same plot twist?
on “The Toynbee Convector” ↗Like I wrote in response to a comment here, a short story exploring this exact scenario was "Think Like a Dinosaur", later made into an Outer Limits episode [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
on “Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?” ↗The Outer Limits has an episode on this (Think Like a Dinosaur) which explores the ethical implications of transporters by explicitly separating the steps of the process (where destruction of the original is a separate and final step).
on “Does Captain Kirk die when he goes through the transporter?” ↗Was it this short story? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Like_a_Dinosaur
on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?” ↗