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?

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    53·
    1 day ago

    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…

    • jam12705@lemmy.world
      5·
      14 hours ago

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

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    Society probably wouldn’t work very well. I don’t know anything but how to write code and eat hot chip. Lots of plane crashes.

  • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    I will give an honest answer. I think the biggest problem would be the knowledge that humanity ends with US. There is absolutely no future unless we decided to clone the opposite gender or something, but honestly that sounds like too much work. So the next thing that would happen is the inevitable depression that follows as all of modern society grinds to a halt and we all decide that any continued existence is just prolonging our inevitable extinction. I give it about a week before most of my copies have died from giving up, the rest live out their days with little meaning in their lives aside from day to day survival.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    4·
    16 hours ago

    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.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 hours ago

    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!

  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 hours ago

    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.