I wouldn't mind either teleporter.
I'm reminded of the following quote by G.C. Williams (sorry for the length):
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"The recognition that the soma is a material entity is not to be confused with a claim that it is really a static object. On a scale of microseconds it is a place where certain processes occur. Likewise a human soma is an object if viewed for seconds or hours, but not over a period of years or decades. Like a candle flame, it is a region where substances enter, play various roles in various processes, and later depart, usually in altered chemical forms. The persistence of somatic pattern over years and decades is not material persistence like that of a robot; it is the persistence of information, partly genetic and partly taken from the environment."
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There isn't anything to us other than what is material. I thought that people stopped arguing for mind-body dualism long ago. We aren't even really material - I am not the same physical entity that I was a year ago. (Though a informational pattern has been preserved).