The clones retain the same physical attributes and memory as the original ‘you’ just before the replacement. From the clone’s perspective, it would be as if you swapped places with another person with no context of the situation that person was in, except it’s with every living person on earth, everyone but you cease to exist and the original ‘you’ isn’t affected in any way.
How would you imagine the world to become after this? How would the society act now that it has become entirely composed of 'you’s? How would you and your clones live the rest of your lives in such a world?
We are trashgirlfriend.
We are many.
We have no idea how to operate a nuclear power plant.
Its basically just boiling water, I’m sure you all can figure it out. Just start pressing buttons.
Nothing productive is going to happen ever again
Nothing will get done.
Well, not exactly. My clones could probably make a decent guess on what to do, but they’d procrastinate on it and do something else given what’s available to them. Before long, everyone starves to death.
Horrible.
We’d be very kind to eachother but nothing of value would be done
I’m seriously impaired, so all humans will start dying in a matter of weeks.
On the plus side, everything in that book The World Without Us will come to pass, and the planet’s environment and ecology will be better off.
I’m incredibly scrappy, so we would get by. I can farm, I can repair stuff, I have a good work ethic, and I get along well with myself.
In certain sciences, we’re just fucked, though. I guess we just don’t do some of that anymore.
Edit: Also, probably about 80% of the world’s computer resources are now serving massive collaborative Luanti build servers. I’m not proud of this, but it’s definitely what the collective mass of my selves would do with all of our free time.
Edit 2: I guess we also probably implement a worldwide tax on all income by all copies of me, to pay a few hundred copies of me to contribute to the Luanti project full time.
Everywhere I look, assholes! /s
We’d be fucked. My memory sucks and I’m on a heavy dose of neuro meds for pain. Flying would also be a no. I have a constant vertigo sensation.
That said, I’m usually pretty good at keeping upbeat and friendly. Not greedy. Don’t care how you dress, what you worship, what you call yourself or identify as, and think you should have your own agency over your body. So at least there’s that.
Sexy time would be weird too. Do I call my own name?
Oh! And I can do that mirror prank endlessly!!
I’m literally killing myself
The world would be a far better place
optimistic of you
Society has finally given up on trousers completely.
Probably a significant amount of deaths over the years as all fields that I’m not an expert start collapsing. Medicine? Fuck me if I know half of what a first semester drop-out knows, electric grid? Goodbye to that I guess, fucking water treatment? Back to rivers! Agriculture? Nope.
So probably everything will go to shit for a few years as clones of me start learning new things to keep us all alive.
Also, sex is going to be weird… If you are fucking your clone, does it matter how many? What is privacy now? They all know my weirdest kinks, they all know how my face looks when I take a dump.
Well, this was a weird one, fun!
So my level of education and competence? Oh no, oh good lord no.
chiillllll. things would slow down a lot, but be efficiently run. interesting podcasts.
This happens in a comics, I’ll try to remember it’s name but there is a sentient, ultra violent poo-like protagonist who is kind of the hero named Schlock or something.
It’s a teleport malfunction and a science guy gets multiplied like 400 million times.
Gav. Cameo from Nukees. Dude ends up outnumbering quite a few species. As the author notes, you have to be dinka-cho careful with tokjith.
Schlock Mercenary is pretty great, I reread it every few years.
If you like military scifi it’s worth a look.
Schlock mercenary is the comics name
We’d be cracking bobiverse jokes until the world ended
