A copy of a person does not need the person.
This interface was designed to be smooth and frictionless, because that is what people expect from technology.
Press at node 1 and trace the route without lifting.
None of these people were tricked.
Every objection this piece has made is true. So is every one of those three. They are true at the same time, in the same world, and nothing about holding both is comfortable.
Which means the question was never whether a copy should exist. It is what would have to be true — about who holds it, who is paid, who can end it — before you wanted one.
You are about to be asked for the last thing it needs.
Accessioned this session — DD-0000
Five areas, one of which is now yours. The reading list follows from it.
Every reading of you in this piece was made on your own device, and none of it was kept.
Museum of the Last Human Before the Digital One — accessions closed
This interface was designed to be smooth and frictionless,
because that is what people expect from technology.