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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

A friend who thinks exactly the same as I do and can get excited at the same ideas? Hell yeah, we'd be inseparable. I have so many projects that would be much easier done with two people. Also, free gym buddy/trainer. My partner would be into it as well for a multitude of reasons. The only trouble would be living space.

I can't think of anything worthwhile we can do as a single legal entity so first thing we'd do is probably acquire a new legal identity so we can legally work and be taxed separately and just generally participate in society. It would be pretty easy to prove that we're genetically identical and therefore are identical twins born at the same time at the same place to the same parents. Everything else can be chalked up to clerical error. The people in charge of this aren't paid enough to care and dig any further than that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Iโ€™d finally have a reliable coop gaming partner. Neither of us would squander that truly priceless gift.

[โ€“] Gonzako 2 points 7 hours ago

Also, you can just work either double the time or half each.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Oh god, two of me! ๐Ÿ˜‚

I think she'd keep telling me dumb jokes while trying to compete with me in drawing, and late at night she'd send me goofy memes that I'd laugh at.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'd give him the keys, the passwords, and wish him good luck with my life. BUH BEYE!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

If he's you and you want to be free of your life and wish it could be someone else's problem then your duplicate is just going to run a mile and thank their lucky stars for this break.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

hell no, we'd start an onlyfans.

[โ€“] satans_methpipe 5 points 13 hours ago

I'm one of the copies and I'm more charming than the original that I killed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

I wouldn't feel compelled to kill my clone, so I don't think my clone would feel compelled to kill me either.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Probably spend the first couple of days fucking and then figure out what happens next after that.

[โ€“] 0_0j 3 points 8 hours ago

Ooh boy ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I'd kill me. I think it would be cool for one of us to commit a brazen crime in broad daylight whilst also having a rock-solid alibi. I couldn't have killed that person; I was giving a speech to 100 people at the time who can all testify for me. Give detectives etc a real head-scratcher when all the evidence points towards me being the culprit but I was also undeniably somewhere else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I'm picturing me and my duplicate having a fight that devolved into us actually trying to kill each other over this because honestly, I'd rather shoot a man.....no scratch that, I'd rather BE shot than give a speech in front of a significant number of people.

[โ€“] NONE_dc 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Or work together and do the job in half the time and enjoy the rest

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

I was thinking that. If it was remote during meetings you could alternate being face or listening lying on a couch.

[โ€“] RebekahWSD 8 points 19 hours ago

So far my identical twin has not killed me nor have I killed them, so I'd be safe probably.

[โ€“] Professorozone 8 points 19 hours ago

I've seen so many TV shows, movies, even commercials where a clone or future self doesn't get along with his twin. I don't understand this. I think I'd get along swimmingly with myself. I mean what's better than spending time with someone who thinks like you do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Hopefully my clone murders me so he's the one that has to go to work

[โ€“] python 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I would trade meticulous handover notes fit in to the working week if it meant I could work one week on, one week off.

[โ€“] TropicalDingdong 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you job barely pays enough to feed you AND and you have a noncompete?

There is almost no way that's enforceable.

[โ€“] python 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

Yes, cause I operate under Highlander Rules.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Anyone who has the thought: "yes i would kill clone me", you better watch your back, your clone thinks the same way you do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too many people with twin fetishism to bother with murder.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Awww that's nice

You could do it half way right now

Maybe learn greenscreening

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

lmao no, I'm way too lazy to try it, and also don't really have a reason to do something like that.

We'd probably just alternate going to work/uni. The extra free time sounds nice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Isn't it weird how I can fap without a second thought, but the idea of having my clone give me a hand job disgusts me

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

But what if you use a gloryhole?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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 Iโ€™ve ever met at my jokes.

[โ€“] Glytch 4 points 21 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would be the murderer and he would be securing our alibi.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

This could've been a great episode of columbo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Finally, someone to guilt me into doing things

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Do his farts smell the same as mine? Then no, sorry dude you've gotta go live somewhere else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

One of us has to move out and it's not me

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh no we'd be cool! Assuming we have the same brain, we can switch out and only work half as much. And eat half as much too I guess, but that's probably good lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

Me and my clone will be allies. I don't know if we could get along well enough to cohabitate, but we would definitely help each other.

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