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Being able to clone myself and sync with my clones is something I've thought about since I was a kid.
I don't think increasing the number of clones would ever allow me to satisfy all my wishes. The number of things I want to do increases with the number of experiences I have in a non-linear way. If I want to be satisfied I need to be willing to accept all of my wishes will never be fulfilled.
To answer your question specifically: 0 clones
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 have enough problems managing myself. I don't see any advantages to doubling the workload.
Would you be able to manage yourself better if you could hold up a mirror to yourself? Maybe by having a clone judge you, as you judge yourself now, you might be more prone to change?
Iβm assuming these copies would also need to eat, sleep, and bathe as well, so thereβd be some cost increases as these copies are added into the mix. Just getting extra jobs probably would only go so far before questions started getting asked or somebody noticed, so an army of me working multiple jobs really wouldnβt go well. Iβd probably keep it minimal with only one copy, maybe two if I could make it work financially and set up some sort of work rotation so that βIβ was only going into work once every few weeks. I might start doing a bunch of freelance design, writing books, gaming and whatever else.
Even better though would be if these were short-term copies that I could just absorb back into myself after a day or whatever and I didnβt have to worry about maintaining their bodies, like Mr. Meeseeks and they just disappear after their task is done. Then Iβd just make copies left and right. βOh shit, Iβm out of milk. Copy #3,945,612, go get some milk, thanks.β
If it were me, there's a risk I would gain weight as I just sit at home playing video games and watching TV while my copies did all the work and errands. So each new copy would be slightly chubbier than the last. I would have to make a real effort to stay active, maybe exercise while my copy is out doing stuff, or get into an outdoor sport.
2 clones should be good. I can do a lot with 3 of me without complicating much.
Everyone keeps tell me to go fuck myself. Inonly need the one copy to live out that wish.
Hereβs a real fun and recent take on this:
Chris and Jack
Are my clones having fun without me?
Probably one, and I would need to swap the good and the bad parts between us.
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.
I think 5 or 6. I'd get to experience living in different cultures without having to abandon friends and family in my current location.
8.6 billion.
Each of my clones would kill one person that was not a clone of me. Then we would all commit suicide.
Climate change is solved. You're welcome. Hopefully the next animal to evolve consciousness does a better job of it.
Do the copies require existing matter? If not, I'm making infinite clones to explore the cosmos.
Hundreds. Thousands. Probably not more than a few hundred million
If we could sync memories, I could do everything at once. I could do anything each day. I could learn everything, I could do everything. My sense of self is flexible enough to see my clones as me... In fact I've had existential breakdowns over only having the one body. We'd be a single person from day one, hell my morality is based on "if the world was made up of only copies of me, would it be a better place".
I'd start with a dozen, then scale up as I get more jobs (I could handle 12x my food bill for a while, I mostly eat beans and rice already). I'd rotate between jobs and time the memory syncs to give myself work-life balance.
So my answer is basically "how many can I get?"
We're all copies of each other and memory sync isn't that far away. But it comes with ads.
16
I think I would just need one. We'd have to work in opposing shifts to get my billion Euro idea out the door in a more reasonable time frame than the one I have currently been working in.
So long as I also get the skills, and experience from the copy, I'd want a single copy that goes to college for me.
A lot. It would be quite a few just to fully get into the hobbies I have, and quite a lot more to pursue all the things I'd like to learn.