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A reply to CGP Grey's video about teleportation, consciousness and Star Trek.
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Nice video Henry! In my opinion there is in deed a deep connection between life/death and information structure. It may have tremendous impact on our moral rules, especially once the AI emerges. It's not only about teleportation of the state:)
Seeing that we cannot have a write without a destructive read, is it possible to have a destructive read without a write, or a write at a later time?
I imagine being killed by other means would probably be considered a "destructive read"? And yes, in principle the write always happens at a later time because it takes time to send the full information necessary to reconstruct the quantum state at the end point. I didn't mention this in detail, but there are two parts to quantum teleportation – an instantaneous quantum part due to entanglement, and a light-speed-limited classical part where you have to send some information about the "read" operation in order to inform the end-user how to perform the proper "write" operation given the quantum state they've been sent via the entanglement.