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If you could split yourself into a copy of yourself, how many copies would you make to satisfy all your wishes? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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.