You can regularly sync your memories with your copies (either one way or both ways)
It would be very ill advised, but SO MANY. Enough to organize them. There’s a mall nearby that’s slowly shutting down, it’s like 99% empty now, and there are homeless encampments all outside it being hassled by cops. Instead of giving it to them, it’s gonna wind up bulldozed and turned into rich people condos. I’d make enough clones to occupy it and turn it into adhoc co-op housing!
…And obviously like all the boning and other stuff one does with clones as well lol.
Enough to enact a meaningful change in your community? That’s probably the best answer I’ve read in this thread
Fuck yeah. You rock.
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Absolutely love this so much
One clone so that I can be a stay-at-home dad without losing my income. Finally finish grad school and fix up the house. Show my kid the world when they get old enough to appreciate it. Get a second job once they start school - something to get me outside, or working with people face-to-face. That would be amazing.
That sounds really nice. Nothing excessive, just meeting your needs
Me after splitting myself into any number of copies:
None as well. The copies will have same needs, same level of lazyness. This won’t benefit anyone, quite the contrary. Just more bad people.
But you could work as a team with common goals, and alleviate the strain of doing it all alone.
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Nah, that sounds like work
Going dark with it: How much are organs worth on the black market?
Keeping it light: like 4 or 5 maybe, as long as there is no degradation in capabilities I think I could feasibly let 1 do my job, then the rest and myself could pursue other intellectual endeavors. I would also always have a full D&D group and be able to play the multiplayer games I have always wanted to that never had the interest of my friends.
DnD issue: memory sync.
You’re just yourself playing yourself, and all copies know what all copies are thinking.
That’s not a malfunction, it’s a feature.
I always play wildly different characters in my campaigns and like to mix things up. The other players knowing what I am thinking just means that I don’t have to communicate my hair brained schemes.
Of it’s naruto style, I would make a 100 of me, have them all find jobs for a year or two, then collapse them all back and never have to work again aince I now saved for 100+ years.
The copies have no living expenses?
They do, but they will earn enough to save some, times 100 it’s a lot
So what happens with my copy once I’m done with it?
Does it just continue to exist?
Do I need to kill it before it figures out that there can be only one, and kill me first?
Reminds me of the episode from Rick and Morty
Which one lol.
There are multiple episodes which come to mind.
This post could be phrased better…
If you could split yourself into a copy of yourself… And why is it one?
Imagine being the copy that has to work while one does the family and one is traveling. The ethics of making a copy of myself that is for all purposes a slave would be really weird. Enslaving copies of myself, what a concept. Oh, also one needs to be kept on away for organ needs as I age or get hurt and one with a master copy in case the main “I” dies unexpectedly. yikes
OP says you can sync memories both ways - easy solution is to just take turns.
The second season of Invincible touches on this with the Mauler Twins (which aren’t actually twins, but instead one guy who clones himself and copies over his brain so there is always two of him around):
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Usually when they make a clone they can’t tell which of them is the original and which is the copy (even though they ought to be able to know by remembering which medical bed the original was lying in, but never mind that), so they work together as equals. However, one time they make a copy after having suffered a disfiguring injury, so they know which one is the original and he lords it over the copy until the copy gets fed up and kills him. The copy sums it up as “sometimes things are the way they are for a good fucking reason.”
That’s assuming your copies have individualism. Where I feel my copies would believe in the greater good. Almost all know the role they play to make my true version incredible.
And knowing myself well, one would absolutely rebel to have empathy for the “worker” versions, and find a middle ground. Maybe 4-day weekends and vacations once a year.
Maybe your awareness splits with each copy, so you go from an “I” to a “we.” No such thing as a “master” copy then, just different organs of the same meta entity
That’s how I see it! It’s very Buddhist.
A lot of folks in the other comments see it as they’re the “Person Prime”, and all the clones are some lesser being. Which I don’t see it that way.
A billion copies to lead a communist revolution. Any more than that would probably be unsustainable globally in the short term while the existing capitalist systems are being dismantled and replaced.
Or 3 or 4 clone friends to help out with daily life.
Both are cool. The latter is probably easier and what my copies could actually manage.
Edit: Actually, the ability to sync memories is so ridiculously overpowered that one could probably achieve pretty much anything with their copies.
It also seems like its usefulness would scale up exponentially the more copies you make, so I’ll go with the first one.
I mean, with that ability you are basically a hivemind. And if playing Stellaris has taught me anything, it is that more pops are always good.
Zero. I don’t hate myself enough to put myself through this twice.
Hell, I’m sad and depressed too when I’m alone, but I manage to get the laundry done and keep the lights on.
You are mistaking not wanting to torture another human being and subject them to a miserable existence, with depression. I think you might also be confusing being sad and lonely with depression.
I would actually take a very different route as a contrast to others on this thread:
I would clone some 20-30 mes and do a speedrun together to gather enough funds to buy a farm, and live out the rest of my life in a commune dream with others like me 🥹
Eventually there’d be other people joining in and I could release more and more of the clones as we gather enough saved up and finish the mortgage and all.
So eventually we’d find something of a balance at around 2-4 clones with which we’d just arrange a rotating system of guaranteeing 3 weeks of free time each between a week of work 😌
Two clones, else it’s going to start getting crowded here I think.
One of us works full time. One of us studies full time. The third would be entertainment (go see a movie, go to events, etc.). Every week, we rotate.
I’m not sure my income can support a full time student and full time layabout lol
If you’re only working and studying 1/3 of the time how does each copy keep up with stuff at work and especially in the studies?
When they re-merge each week they share memories
