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Having just read "I Am A Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter, I'm inclined to take Daniel's statement at face value as well. I am very put off by the kind of thinking that produces such a statement, but I guess if you REALLY think you have no personal identity, I can't argue too convincingly against you. The only thing I have to say is this: do you think that your own instance of yourself would mind if you used a destructive teleporter?
The only thing you could really say is "me" is the current instance of me. The later ones are, for all intents and purposes, other people.
A destructive teleporter can't destroy the current instance of me, since it can't erase the past.
I also note that of the anthropic trilemma, two cause paradoxes, and the other one (no personal identity) just seems counterintuitive to most people.