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
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
Isaac Asimov singing “the Clone Song”:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
One would go to work, the other would be a house-husband.
I love my work, just don’t have enough time to stay home, keep the place clean and tidy, read my books, visit places and chill!
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?
What a bunch of useless SOBs. Can’t I clone somebody better?
This post could be phrased better…
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?
Nah, I’m getting old and crusty, I don’t change easily without kicking and screaming. Plus I’d probably be annoyed as hell by my other self. I have my flaws, but I’ve learned to live with them - I just don’t want those flaws to have twice the amplitude.
Ah, Multiplicity. An underrated Michael Keaton comedy, IMO.
8.6 billion.
Each of my clones would kill one person that was not a clone of me. Then we would all commit suicide.
Climate change is solved. You’re welcome. Hopefully the next animal to evolve consciousness does a better job of it.
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.
One. Then I can kill myself and let them deal with it all.