You can regularly sync your memories with your copies (either one way or both ways)
You mean feed and house more people on a single income and subject those people to this hellscape? No thanks.
Plus, is my clone really going to be fine with acting as a slave? Unlikely.
I thought about this and sometimes I really appreciate having someone to offload executive function to (like a personal trainer). Maybe we could take turns.
I enjoy both acting like a leader, as well as not having to think and just doing what I’m told. But I don’t enjoy, or am productive, when I have to both act as my own leader and follow my instructions. Splitting in 2 and aplitting those 2 roles would probably increase my productivity and happiness 10 fold.
Yeah, I find that I get squished between increases in responsibility without corresponding increase in power to achieve those responsibilities. :/ at work, anyway.
I guess I could learn lots of things by dividing learning tasks up
I was thinking something more along the lines of splitting the work equally, then synching memories after and then I have way more free tine (I’d unsplit for that).
Yeah, I was thinking something like “come home for lunch” and swap roles. Both work half the day, and both get half a day to do a few chores/errands each week and get some downtime to play/learn/explore/tinker. Then divide and conquer in the evening the same way; split parenting time and other-stuff time.
Edit: Also depends if we can freely recombine and split. Merge to eat (most of the time) and sleep (amidst always) to minimize costs, split to do stuff in between.
Yeag tgats what I meant with “unsplit”. Just do that for work and then unite again for the free time.
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?
Being able to clone myself and sync with my clones is something I’ve thought about since I was a kid.
I don’t think increasing the number of clones would ever allow me to satisfy all my wishes. The number of things I want to do increases with the number of experiences I have in a non-linear way. If I want to be satisfied I need to be willing to accept all of my wishes will never be fulfilled.
To answer your question specifically: 0 clones
Nice answer!
You see an exponential curve of interest, instead of an S-shaped curve? Your interests would likely develop rapidly at first yes, but even that will get boring with time and you might plateau at a small community of yourself with dwindling interests, slowly creeping back into single digits, and then finally yourself.
It wouldn’t all be for nothing though, you would still have all the fruits and experiences of their/your labour.
The curve could definitely be S shaped, but it’s hard to say.
I think that I would be really unhappy/bored in a world where I got to experience “everything” I wanted to do. In fact, just the idea of not having to make any trade offs/compromises is incredibly paralyzing to think about right now lol
If the clones don’t allow me to live forever, eventually dying would be the most interesting thing for me to do because it would be the only “new” thing left to experience in my lifetime.
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Holy crap two fun back and forths leads to a book recommendation, today has been a great day. Thank you!
Imagine the grocery bill!
Y’all never split a meal (into mouse-sized portions to the point that you go to bed hungry every night)?
I think I would just need one. We’d have to work in opposing shifts to get my billion Euro idea out the door in a more reasonable time frame than the one I have currently been working in.
that seems fair. One could implement the backend, and the other the front end, and still share one mind at the end of the day
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.
With two of me I think I could make for a normal person.
Tell me about it
Double the current world population.
Destruction for the sake of destruction? I’ve seen a few anime’s like this, and they don’t end well
Are you saying I don’t take care of my things!!?
I think so, yes
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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.
tens of millions. and since we’d all be me, we’d only split into 3-4 warring factions of communists, but then we’d liberate the world…
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.
In double digits at the very least. I need to work more and we’d peer pressure each other into working.
I’d like helping hands in a few of my hobbies and we’d build bigger things made to scale if there were a lot of us.
Sounds good, though let’s hope you have some copies for resting, in case they all burnout at the same time
I almost can’t imagine a reasonable upper bound. Maybe 1000? That would certainly be enough to be able to do some serious stuff.
The ability to sync memories and have the same experiences and past would be crazy. I could align myself and all the clones to a shared goal easily. With the amount of clones, I could do basically anything.
Only problem I can see is… is there a way to know the “original”? Would I be in control of my clones? Or would I myself just be another clone? I think I’d still go for something like 1000 even if I was just another clone.
If you wanted to, you could tattoo each clone with a timestamp to know who was the true Alpha.
In terms of control, you could do the Naruto method of spawning a few clones for a given task, and then halting them (with a memory sync) before proceeding on to the next stage of your plan and spawning off new clones with your new memories.
1000 seems a bit excessive to be honest. I can imagine having 1 or 2 for leisure, 2 or 3 for work, 2 or 3 for hobby projects, maybe a max of 10 to make me happy.
The other 990 seems like you have visions of world domination
The other 990 seems like you have visions of world domination
I think I would need more than 1000 clones for that :P but definitely visions of some major influence. Why not if given that kind of power? I would try and make the world a better place.
Hundreds. Thousands. Probably not more than a few hundred million
If we could sync memories, I could do everything at once. I could do anything each day. I could learn everything, I could do everything. My sense of self is flexible enough to see my clones as me… In fact I’ve had existential breakdowns over only having the one body. We’d be a single person from day one, hell my morality is based on “if the world was made up of only copies of me, would it be a better place”.
I’d start with a dozen, then scale up as I get more jobs (I could handle 12x my food bill for a while, I mostly eat beans and rice already). I’d rotate between jobs and time the memory syncs to give myself work-life balance.
So my answer is basically “how many can I get?”
Only if the copies are temporary. If they’re actual permanent clones, all I’ve done is create more issues for myself. They gotta eat, and we can’t both work, how we gonna file taxes separately?
You all have the same SSN, so taxes should be the same unless the gov’t can prove you have clones
