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In media, there are sometimes stories where a person is cloned/duplicated (usually with identical memories) and the clone is murderous towards the original. Usually it's something like "I knew there could be only one of us, and you would do the same". Sometimes, they're able to work things out and can share a single public identity, or duplication gives one copy a chance to do go off and live a new life that they always wanted.

How would you and your duplicate get along? Assume you are living like you do today, in a society where duplication is unheard of and has no legal precedent.

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[โ€“] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oh no we'd be cool! Assuming we have the same brain, we can switch out and only work half as much. And eat half as much too I guess, but that's probably good lol

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[โ€“] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Me and my clone will be allies. I don't know if we could get along well enough to cohabitate, but we would definitely help each other.

[โ€“] SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago

Iโ€™d roll the dice on just coming out publicly as two of the same guy. Iโ€™m pretty sure weโ€™d spend like a year being minor celebrities and then everyone would stop caring.

[โ€“] BCsven@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 weeks ago

Hopefully my clone murders me so he's the one that has to go to work

[โ€“] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Na I'm pretty chill. We'd just live and let live. I'd probably have to prove I'm the original which might be tricky but then the clone would leave and start a new life I guess, that's what I'd do so it's probably what my clone would do too.

[โ€“] choss@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago
[โ€“] philluminati@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be the murderer and he would be securing our alibi.

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[โ€“] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

Finally, someone to guilt me into doing things

[โ€“] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

More likely himself or we would be arguing about who should get to die.

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[โ€“] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

No. We would go camping and do cool stuff together. The only conflict I foresee is taking turns on the gaming PC, but we would be happy to work together to build a second one.

[โ€“] Alice@beehaw.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

Do we have the same personality? Because I don't see why it would escalate to murder. I don't like violence.

I think most likely is we'd take turns going to work, and one of us would always get to stay home and procrastinate on chores. For some people that probably wouldn't work as the duplicate would point out they have no obligation to their original, but I have a million siblings so an obsession with fairness has been hard-coded into my brain. We would work the exact same amount of hours and split all our sweets perfectly evenly.

I think the big downside is that I'd probably have to stop going to the gym. Alternating days would effectively halve my progress, and I'm not buying twice as much protein power.

Nope. There's a plan in place for that.

What? I do a lot of writing, this kind of idea isn't new, so I've thought about how it should work.

We'd both be dealing with too much existential dread to try and kill each other.

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, We would become buddies. We would pretend to be twins in public. We'd split the work, I'd go one week and he'd go the other. We'd play Soulcalibur and Tekken and since we'd both be equally bad it wouldn't be frustrating.

[โ€“] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It would be hard to alternate work if its a professional role. You would have to do like update sessions and it would make more work for both of you relative to pay.

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[โ€“] python@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We'd get along fine, but feeding two people on one salary will definitely be annoying (my job has a non-competition clause where I can't pick up a second job in the same field), and getting enough adhd meds for the both of us will be impossible due to strict regulations here.

One of us still could bring value to the household by being the designated bangmaid though

[โ€“] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

you job barely pays enough to feed you AND and you have a noncompete?

There is almost no way that's enforceable.

[โ€“] python@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Nono, it feeds me comfortably, I'm just really into saving up since I want to own an apartment one day and I'd definitely be annoyed at having to feed an extra person with no prior notice.

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[โ€“] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

They might. But I wouldn't want that.

[โ€“] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 13 points 3 weeks ago

I think we would get along well because I love people who laugh at my jokes and nobody laughs as hard at my jokes as I do, except maybe my wife, who after 12 years together still laughs harder than anyone Iโ€™ve ever met at my jokes.

[โ€“] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Too many people with twin fetishism to bother with murder.

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i've learned recently that there's a surprisingly large number of people that find me attractive despite my size and age; i would 100% create an only fans page with my duplicate to capitalize on this fact. lol

[โ€“] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Awww that's nice

You could do it half way right now

Maybe learn greenscreening

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

they somehow find me "charming" so i would have to record myself at least twice, with each time recording one half of a conversation; not that, that's a bad thing since some small part of me has been looking for a new hobby and video editing might prove to be as lucrative as my last passionate hobby with linux programming. lol

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