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.
No, we would work together on tasks. I would walk to work while Other Me would take my car and get errands done. Or to change things up a little, Other Me could walk to work and I would run errands.
Hell, Other Me could play my online games and make progress while I’m at work. I’ve been meaning to level up my Black Mage in FFXIV, but life has kept me busy.
In the evenings, we would have to clearly explain to each other what we did that day and who we interacted with. Otherwise we risk diverging into two different people.
No actually we would probably be really sweet to each other and understanding. I am not naturally very competitive or hostile.
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.
Too many people with twin fetishism to bother with murder.
i’ve learned recently that there’s a surprisingly large number of people that find me attractive despite my size and age; i would 100% create an only fans page with my duplicate to capitalize on this fact. lol
Awww that’s nice
You could do it half way right now
Maybe learn greenscreening
they somehow find me “charming” so i would have to record myself at least twice, with each time recording one half of a conversation; not that, that’s a bad thing since some small part of me has been looking for a new hobby and video editing might prove to be as lucrative as my last passionate hobby with linux programming. lol
They might. But I wouldn’t want that.
Nah, We would become buddies. We would pretend to be twins in public. We’d split the work, I’d go one week and he’d go the other. We’d play Soulcalibur and Tekken and since we’d both be equally bad it wouldn’t be frustrating.
It would be hard to alternate work if its a professional role. You would have to do like update sessions and it would make more work for both of you relative to pay.
Or work together and do the job in half the time and enjoy the rest
I was thinking that. If it was remote during meetings you could alternate being face or listening lying on a couch.
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.
We’d get along fine, but feeding two people on one salary will definitely be annoying (my job has a non-competition clause where I can’t pick up a second job in the same field), and getting enough adhd meds for the both of us will be impossible due to strict regulations here.
One of us still could bring value to the household by being the designated bangmaid though
you job barely pays enough to feed you AND and you have a noncompete?
There is almost no way that’s enforceable.
Nono, it feeds me comfortably, I’m just really into saving up since I want to own an apartment one day and I’d definitely be annoyed at having to feed an extra person with no prior notice.
Is it narcissistic to think that having a clone would be awesome as hell?
We’d both be dealing with too much existential dread to try and kill each other.
I also would bang the clone.
I would be the murderer and he would be securing our alibi.
This could’ve been a great episode of columbo.
No. We would go camping and do cool stuff together. The only conflict I foresee is taking turns on the gaming PC, but we would be happy to work together to build a second one.
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.
