You can regularly sync your memories with your copies (either one way or both ways)
All I’d need is one. She’d do doppelgänger work and keep me company sentimentally as well as fulfill, ahem, physical needs.
Interesting idea but I would utterly hate a person like me.
The old saying about “you hate in others what reminds you of yourself” feels like it was written for me!
I really need someone to contrast my personality. I’d kick clone out within minutes.
'You can’t hate me like I do. I know me better." – Pitchshifter
'Please Sir, tell me why
My life’s so pitiful
But the future’s so bright?Well I’d look ahead
But it burns my retinas’- Pitchshifter
Your clone is only a copy of you at first, the more it experiences, the more different it becomes. That’s going to cause issues eventually. They may even start working against you.
The solution is The Prestige.
The clone only exists long enough to complete a task or fulfill a purpose, but then one of us (and we don’t know which) is gonna get dropped through a trap door and drowned when we’re done.
You just described a meseeks box
Yeah but the person pressing the button isn’t cloning themselves, and the meeseeks just wanna help and then die. Your clone is you, and may start getting…ideas if they hang around too long.
I was going to make a joke about how meeseeks want to die so it isn’t that bad, but some people may be into that.
Everyone has horrific qualities about them, but everyone has redeeming qualities too. I’m sure you and your clone would fight, but I can imagine you would get a lot done too
One me gets basically nothing done. I feel like a second me is just gonna be used to play all the coop games my friends don’t play and we’re gonna achieve even less somehow.
Tangentially related, but I often think about if everyone on Earth were just like me, what kind of place would it be?
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Yeah, I’d fuck myself too ;)
8,093,000,000
Andy Weir - The Egg:
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
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.
Blowjob centipede
take over the world
Nah, that sounds like work
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
Two would be ideal.
Three would have greater benefits, greater complexity and problems.
Assume you could sync your memories after each day. What would you do with them?
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 anything with their copies.
It seems like its usefulness would scale up exponentially the more copies you make, so I’ll go with the first one.
Just the one, we’d both sit around doing nothing. Get him to give me a hand job, it’s not gay if it’s you right?
I have enough problems managing myself. I don’t see any advantages to doubling the workload.
Would you be able to manage yourself better if you could hold up a mirror to yourself? Maybe by having a clone judge you, as you judge yourself now, you might be more prone to change?
Just one. I’d get twice as much software written, and amazing blowjobs.
However…… I’d need to make sure that They have a desire to obey me. Because I don’t do anything I don’t want to do, and I’d very quickly tell “me” to go fuck myself.
What are the limitations here? Like… can I boss the clones around, or will they need to be coaxed?
Because if I can get a clone army you bet your ass I’m getting a clone army.
Coaxed in the same way you convince yourself to get up in the morning
So we sleep in a pile like hamsters and accomplish just about as much as a pile of hamsters.
Are hamsters depressed? Has anyone checked to see if hamsters are ok? I am worried about hamsters, they deserve to be happy.
You must have some floor space, or a sofa, or a friend to crash at, and even you must be reasonable enough with yourself to have a sleeping location rota that you can (all) agree on
Nope. All in a pile like hamsters.
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3 for security, 3 for family, and 3 for wandering.
we are crawancon
Why for security?
24 hours in a day means 3x 8 hour shifts on watch. Shit goes down and you can muster up a total of 3 to defend the original who can amass a hoard to zerg rush your enemies with waves of meat.
I think I meant more “why is security even necessary in your daily life?”
Pay Amazon to farm my data via their doorbell or put a me in a cute security guard outfit that is probably meant for a stripper and give him a stool to watch the block? Easy choice, Velcro short shorts and cheap aviators.
As many as my finances can comfortably support
Assume a clone is free. You could take turns with a clone sleeping in your bed, or the couch, or the floor, or at your partner’s, or crashing with a friend.
The clone doesn’t have to eat?
yes it does, it’s essentially you
Food expenses 💸
Ah. Right, good point. Still, a bag of rice a day?
You would give yourself a bag of rice a day? I mean, I hate myself and I’d still feed it well 😳
In that case then I’d start with one. Have them go to my job. And see how well they do at the job. Then get another one and have them do another job at a different site. Once I’m pulling in $200,000/year. I’d start traveling and see the world.
Since they are free. Then they don’t need food or water. Just need the heat for the house. Also need the electricity. As for clothing. Other then work clothes they can wear tshirts and jeans.
When I said “free” I meant you don’t pay to have one, but you still need to feed and house them, as you would yourself.
Having two for work and one (yourself) for travel seems like a good balance though.
None. I don’t think clones could satisfy my wishes. And I wouldn’t want to burden them with a life.
Oh good. I was starting to think I was the only Eeyore in here.
You know that episode of Futurama, where Bender made near infinite copies of himself and nearly the destroyed the world?
Yeah that, but maybe a little slowly since I like to procrastinate.
