[Dylan16807]

Well in the teleporter example you still have a Bob. With the earring it's probably not processing Bob's mind in there at all, which makes it way worse.

[ShinyLeftPad]

Earring supposedly directs wearer to what's good for them so supposedly it did processing at first...

[Dylan16807]

It's processing something, but probably not running a whole Bob in there.

[ShinyLeftPad]

Sure. But the key part is the same, you die and something else walks instead...

[Dylan16807]

Eh. Like arguably you die when you sleep. It's way better to have an ultra accurate copy than to have a totally different thing half-pretend to be Bob/you.

[ShinyLeftPad]

> you die when you sleep

Eh. The teleporter thing is not about that kind of dying... and the earring one also!

[Dylan16807]

Teleporter is a spectrum and one end of it is even less than sleeping. And even the high end is way short of how the earring probably works.