The clones retain the same physical attributes and memory as the original ‘you’ just before the replacement. From the clone’s perspective, it would be as if you swapped places with another person with no context of the situation that person was in, except it’s with every living person on earth, everyone but you cease to exist and the original ‘you’ isn’t affected in any way.

How would you imagine the world to become after this? How would the society act now that it has become entirely composed of 'you’s? How would you and your clones live the rest of your lives in such a world?

  • palordrolap
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    Without anyone around who would be sad if I ceased to exist, quite a lot of me would leave pretty quickly, if you catch my drift.

    But then, there’s also that all but one of me would be in my house, with my things. I’m a nigh-agoraphobic hoarder. Several billion of me would be a long, long way from home and my (our?) stuff, and several thousand would start heading to my house as fast as humanly possible.

    There’d be a lot of road accidents. I don’t drive.

    Infrastructure would crumble immediately.

    Anyone who didn’t “leave” would starve in a few days.

    This is not a good plan. Do not use.

  • megane-kun
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    01 month ago

    Nothing will get done.

    Well, not exactly. My clones could probably make a decent guess on what to do, but they’d procrastinate on it and do something else given what’s available to them. Before long, everyone starves to death.

  • Elaine Cortez
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    01 month ago
    • The most common kind of art you’d see is art of peculiar creatures, often ones without any eyes, but with big gaping mouths with lips and teeth

    • Physics is my favourite subject, so I’d imagine there would be a lot more physicists around!

    • Usage of “Eh” at the end of a sentence will be the norm

    • Nobody would be able to play hockey, since I cannot ice skate to save my life

    • I have hyperthymia so the entire world would be having a constant episode of mild mania pretty much LMAO

  • @MTK@lemmy.world
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    Probably a significant amount of deaths over the years as all fields that I’m not an expert start collapsing. Medicine? Fuck me if I know half of what a first semester drop-out knows, electric grid? Goodbye to that I guess, fucking water treatment? Back to rivers! Agriculture? Nope.

    So probably everything will go to shit for a few years as clones of me start learning new things to keep us all alive.

    Also, sex is going to be weird… If you are fucking your clone, does it matter how many? What is privacy now? They all know my weirdest kinks, they all know how my face looks when I take a dump.

    Well, this was a weird one, fun!

  • @Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml
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    01 month ago

    Mass exodus of society, if I rule society and I am society, then it would crumble instantly, versions of me would take over the electrical grid and infrastructure to keep it running, but other than the required precursors to that infrastructure, very few trappings of modern society would stay bar the the internet, the books, the roads but you’d see a mass rewilding and movement into wilder spaces

  • @liv@lemmy.nz
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    01 month ago

    I’m seriously impaired, so all humans will start dying in a matter of weeks.

    On the plus side, everything in that book The World Without Us will come to pass, and the planet’s environment and ecology will be better off.

  • @MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    I’m incredibly scrappy, so we would get by. I can farm, I can repair stuff, I have a good work ethic, and I get along well with myself.

    In certain sciences, we’re just fucked, though. I guess we just don’t do some of that anymore.

  • @DarthKaren@lemmy.world
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    Everywhere I look, assholes! /s

    We’d be fucked. My memory sucks and I’m on a heavy dose of neuro meds for pain. Flying would also be a no. I have a constant vertigo sensation.

    That said, I’m usually pretty good at keeping upbeat and friendly. Not greedy. Don’t care how you dress, what you worship, what you call yourself or identify as, and think you should have your own agency over your body. So at least there’s that.

    Sexy time would be weird too. Do I call my own name?

    Oh! And I can do that mirror prank endlessly!!