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.
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.
nah, if it’s an exact copy of me why wouldn’t it just act like me?
More likely himself or we would be arguing about who should get to die.
Sitcom where two clones are constantly foiling each others’ suicide plans
sorta a reverse spy vs spy.
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 I’ve ever met at my jokes.
I also would bang the clone.
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.
I’m pretty nice. I think it’d take some more intense circumstances like in Dark Matter before I or a copy of me wanted to kill anyone. I wonder if I’d be ok with taking turns for time with loved ones.
So I’ve been thinking about this and I think it mostly depends on if my wife was also duplicated. If so, I could see the 4 of us living together and pooling resources. Possibly even working out some shenanigans to double dip or get out of some things. However, I can’t see my wife or myself being cool with an arrangement where a duplicate and I share my wife. I don’t know if I’d kill The other me over it but, I could see us coming to blows over it.
If it’s a perfect copy, without a doubt we’d try to kill each other as soon as the confusion of the situation wore off. We might not succeed, but we’d try.
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.
I’d roll the dice on just coming out publicly as two of the same guy. I’m pretty sure we’d spend like a year being minor celebrities and then everyone would stop caring.
I think my duplicate and I would take turns working versus staying at home to get things done, like putting together that cat tower/rope-bridge I’ve (we’ve) been holding off on
Anyone who has the thought: “yes i would kill clone me”, you better watch your back, your clone thinks the same way you do.
I would be the murderer and he would be securing our alibi.
This could’ve been a great episode of columbo.
She and I would definitely be fucking tbh.
Other than that, finally, enough time in the day to work on hobbies. One clone works, the other hobbys, and alternate every now and again.
But… you don’t need a clone to do that. Just find anyone who wants to live with you and work 50%.
The likelihood of me waking up with a clone is higher than the likelihood of me finding someone I want to live with
