DanielLC comments on I want to save myself - Less Wrong Discussion
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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.