{"id":141,"date":"2001-04-27T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-27T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:39:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:39:32","slug":"sci-fi-ethical-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Sci-fi ethical dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> As seen in this <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=01\/04\/27\/1532214&amp;cid=108\">Slashdot post<\/a> in a thread on cloning by <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/users.pl?op=userinfo&amp;nick=eries\">\"eries\"<\/a>:<\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" \/>For those hollerin for cloning tech now, here's a little story from Graham Glass' excellent <em>UNIX for Programmers and Users<\/em>, Page 410 (SystemsProgramming, Getting a New Process: fork())<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"It [fork] reminds me of a great sci-fi story I read once, about a man who comes across a fascinating booth at a circus. The vendor at the booth tells man that the booth is a matter-replicator; anyone who walks through the booth is duplicated. The original person walks out of the booth unharmed, but the duplicate person walks out onto the surface of Mars as a slave of the Martian construction crews. The vendor then tells the man that he'll be given a million dollars if he allows himself to be replicated, and he agrees. He happily walks through the machine, looking forward to collecting the million dollars&#8230; and walks out onto the surface of Mars. Meanwhile, back on Earth, his duplicate is walking off with a stash of cash. The question is this: If you came across the booth, what would you do?\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Careful what you wish for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As seen in this Slashdot post in a thread on cloning by \"eries\": For those hollerin for cloning tech now, here's a little story from Graham Glass' excellent UNIX for Programmers and Users, Page 410 (SystemsProgramming, Getting a New Process: fork()) \"It [fork] reminds me <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=141\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}