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?
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We're all copies of each other and memory sync isn't that far away. But it comes with ads.
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3 for security, 3 for family, and 3 for wandering.
we are crawancon
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
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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
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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.
That sounds really nice. Nothing excessive, just meeting your needs
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
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 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
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With two of me I think I could make for a normal person.
Tell me about it
None. I don't think clones could satisfy my wishes. And I wouldn't want to burden them with a life.
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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
A lot. It would be quite a few just to fully get into the hobbies I have, and quite a lot more to pursue all the things I'd like to learn.
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?
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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.