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The "Star Trek" transporter As this thread seems to have started by considering "Star Trek"'s transporter, Here's a little more on the same. The Star Trek transporter does supposedly copy the person and delete the original. In "Star Trek - TNG" there is an episode where Will Riker meets himself...

Rur IMO, most thoughts on AI/Robotics turning against their creator is inspired by the play that introduced the term in the first place - "Rossum's Universal Robots". If this were possible, wouldn't it be recursively possible for a creat(ed[or]) to create another self constructing machine. In...