THE VIDEO SHELF · philosophy of personal identity
Why Teleportation Would Kill You
CGP Grey asks whether Star Trek-style teleportation would kill you and recreate a copy, working through the philosophy of identity and the Ship of Theseus. It is a short animated explainer.
Why HN readers recommended it
Pointed to in threads about mind uploading and teleportation as a good, accessible look at personal identity.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CGP Grey
- Topic
- philosophy of personal identity
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2020
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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That’s a great question that’s been pondered by philosophers for a while: [LINK] Here’s a fun video talking about the same thing: [VIDEO]
rendezvouscp on Hacker News · 2016-03
In If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years tooThis question descends from an ancient philosophical question; see the Ship of Theseus[0]. CGP Grey has a good look at the question wrt Star Trek teleportation[1]. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]
macintux on Hacker News · 2018-03
In A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
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