You can regularly sync your memories with your copies (either one way or both ways)
Going dark with it: How much are organs worth on the black market?
Keeping it light: like 4 or 5 maybe, as long as there is no degradation in capabilities I think I could feasibly let 1 do my job, then the rest and myself could pursue other intellectual endeavors. I would also always have a full D&D group and be able to play the multiplayer games I have always wanted to that never had the interest of my friends.
DnD issue: memory sync.
You’re just yourself playing yourself, and all copies know what all copies are thinking.
That’s not a malfunction, it’s a feature.
I always play wildly different characters in my campaigns and like to mix things up. The other players knowing what I am thinking just means that I don’t have to communicate my hair brained schemes.
If you would be willing to sell the organs of your clones, it stands to reason that your clones would be willing to sell yours. I think you would likely be harvested first and then they would devolve into a game of organ harvesting Highlander as they all turned on each other.
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Andy Weir - The Egg:
Such a great short story. My first exposure to this was the Kursgesagt animated version:
Me after splitting myself into any number of copies:
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
Of it’s naruto style, I would make a 100 of me, have them all find jobs for a year or two, then collapse them all back and never have to work again aince I now saved for 100+ years.
This post could be phrased better…
If you could split yourself into a copy of yourself… And why is it one?
I would actually take a very different route as a contrast to others on this thread:
I would clone some 20-30 mes and do a speedrun together to gather enough funds to buy a farm, and live out the rest of my life in a commune dream with others like me 🥹
Eventually there’d be other people joining in and I could release more and more of the clones as we gather enough saved up and finish the mortgage and all.
So eventually we’d find something of a balance at around 2-4 clones with which we’d just arrange a rotating system of guaranteeing 3 weeks of free time each between a week of work 😌
Two clones, else it’s going to start getting crowded here I think.
One of us works full time. One of us studies full time. The third would be entertainment (go see a movie, go to events, etc.). Every week, we rotate.
I’m not sure my income can support a full time student and full time layabout lol
If you’re only working and studying 1/3 of the time how does each copy keep up with stuff at work and especially in the studies?
When they re-merge each week they share memories
You know that episode of Futurama, where Bender made near infinite copies of himself and nearly the destroyed the world?
Yeah that, but maybe a little slowly since I like to procrastinate.
Imagine being the copy that has to work while one does the family and one is traveling. The ethics of making a copy of myself that is for all purposes a slave would be really weird. Enslaving copies of myself, what a concept. Oh, also one needs to be kept on away for organ needs as I age or get hurt and one with a master copy in case the main “I” dies unexpectedly. yikes
OP says you can sync memories both ways - easy solution is to just take turns.
The second season of Invincible touches on this with the Mauler Twins (which aren’t actually twins, but instead one guy who clones himself and copies over his brain so there is always two of him around):
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Usually when they make a clone they can’t tell which of them is the original and which is the copy (even though they ought to be able to know by remembering which medical bed the original was lying in, but never mind that), so they work together as equals. However, one time they make a copy after having suffered a disfiguring injury, so they know which one is the original and he lords it over the copy until the copy gets fed up and kills him. The copy sums it up as “sometimes things are the way they are for a good fucking reason.”
That’s assuming your copies have individualism. Where I feel my copies would believe in the greater good. Almost all know the role they play to make my true version incredible.
And knowing myself well, one would absolutely rebel to have empathy for the “worker” versions, and find a middle ground. Maybe 4-day weekends and vacations once a year.
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?
You all have the same SSN, so taxes should be the same unless the gov’t can prove you have clones
2 copies. One for work. One for Personal life. One for spare parts.
But if they have individualism then I will assume a fight will eventually break out.
You mean feed and house more people on a single income and subject those people to this hellscape? No thanks.
Plus, is my clone really going to be fine with acting as a slave? Unlikely.
I’m having an orgy with myself for sure.
