You can regularly sync your memories with your copies (either one way or both ways)

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All I’d need is one. She’d do doppelgänger work and keep me company sentimentally as well as fulfill, ahem, physical needs.

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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.

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'You can’t hate me like I do. I know me better." – Pitchshifter

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'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

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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.

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10 points

You just described a meseeks box

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I disagree. The comment says you can Sync up memories. That means those memories and experiences would happen to both people once Synced.

If there was no Syncing then I fully agree.

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8 points

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

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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.

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Nah, that’s what you think. You’d be hate fucking yourself before the end of the day

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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 ;)

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Space Beth: A Clone Love Story

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Isaac Asimov singing “the Clone Song”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAtz2rO-E_0

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=hAtz2rO-E_0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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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.

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Enough to enact a meaningful change in your community? That’s probably the best answer I’ve read in this thread

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Fuck yeah. You rock.

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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.

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That sounds really nice. Nothing excessive, just meeting your needs

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29 points

8,093,000,000

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Such a great short story. My first exposure to this was the Kursgesagt animated version:

https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI?si=Axn62mZ7dgE9xv87

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/h6fcK_fRYaI?si=Axn62mZ7dgE9xv87

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Absolutely love this so much

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Me after splitting myself into any number of copies:

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