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?

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    • 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

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    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.

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      Its basically just boiling water, I’m sure you all can figure it out. Just start pressing buttons.

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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.

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    Everyone would be very careful because there would be no doctors. I’m in good health now but any serious injuries or future diseases would go untreated until some of mes went to self taught medical school.

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    The world would pretty much immediately grind to a halt because, surprisingly enough, i don’t know everything.
    Power stations would shut down, water treatment plants would fail, crops would fail to get harvested, air traffic would be a disaster, etc. I will say that once i figured out that it all relied on “me” i would put in serious effort but it couldnt possibly make up for the lack of knowledge.
    On the plus side conflicts would likely just end because I’m mostly a pacifist and open minded.

    It would temporarily be pretty chill.
    Ya boi (that’s me) is known among friends to be easy-going, relaxed, and easy to work with.
    …Until it devolved into chaos and we all died, anyway.

    Edit: oh and obviously Lemmy would die :(
    I could probably figure out how to keep it running with all the information online but with everything else going on…

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    Probably attempt to evacuate and dangerous places I absolutely have no place being. I’m sure lots of me would die in plan crashes, and I pity the ones currently in nuclear submarines. They’d probably try to figure out how to land or steer but probably fail. The rest would probably get together and form some agrarian society while we figured out how to industrialize.