The possibilities for every body else. The cost for you. From your point of view, you step into a machine, and then you randomly experience one of the interact

The possibilities for every body else. The cost for you. From your point of view, you step into a machine, and then you randomly experience one of the interactions with a user. If the image truly lives forever, you have overwhelming chance of interacting with somebody completely alien to you, who will ask you things you don't fully understand, and marvel at your primitiveness. Then you die. You have some small chance of living for a few years with a user you understand. Probably still much shorter, less rewarding, less free than if (by chance) you are the version of yourself that steps out of the scanner and lives their natural, physical life instead. It's a Prestige situation [1] except you have been tricked into it, because the image does not get used according to the terms you signed. "There'll be people just like me forever" is very different from "I live forever", to me. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)