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It won't be me and, unless I have some loved one there, I'm not thoughtlessly jumping into suicide.

I know how teleportation machines work and I won't be using one.

Doesn't that make it even more selfless?

But if I don't do it, I'm not who I think I am.

My concern would be less about whether it sends the original or creates a perfect copy, but more about how reliable it is. Getting Riker'd/Boimler'd would be okay, but having more than a negligible chance of any other sort of transporter accident would definitely give me pause.

The trolley problem but the only way to pull the lever is to take a nap first.

Since your consciousness stopped and then a new was started from the same meat is it still you?

If it is, then surely a new consciousness constructed from a pile of meat identical to your brain would also be you?

ok, i'm too stupid for this picture...why are commenters implying you die when you use the transporter? it's next to the rails isn't it?

No. Not because teleporter but because no need for multi track drifting if other path clear.

I tend to think what "you" are is the pattern formed by the various electrical and chemical signals in your brain and whatever other parts of your body are involved in cognition, and since patterns are ultimately information, and a completely identical copy of some information is the same information with nothing to distinguish it, that a sufficiently perfect copy of you literally is you, and as such, if the teleporter works the way fictional teleporters are generally described as working, then yes, it is you.

Nah, I'll send Tom Riker.

Easiest one ever, ship of thesius here I come!

If we’re talking about atom-by-atom reconstruction, then the question is about philosophical zombies.

I don’t put much stock in any philosophies that say ~~you~~ the constructed being definitely would be a zombie. But I do believe in the possibility that ~~you~~ the constructed being could be a zombie.