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boy this really depends. Is it a hive mind kind of thing or are we independent? Is there a prime? Do the duplicates have a shelf life or will they live a normal life once duplicated? I mean if they were independent and lived a normal life. Like some kind of spontaneous clone where we shared memory up to the point of duplication. Well then I would never do it. It would be worse than having children. If it were like a hive mind and we could re-absorb and such. mmmm. not sure as its basically a super power at that point. would likely use it casualy or as need be. Would definately make any carrying task easier. Even then it sorta depends how the hive mind works in terms of multitasking and such.

Pretty sure what I'd do would technically count as masturbation.

We could both get jobs and then we could probably afford to buy a house

Gym partner

Easier/cheaper to cook for 2

Just a lot of life would be easier if I had someone I could trust 100% who also has all the same preferences and goals as me

Have an existential crisis.

I tell you what I’d do, man. Four chicks at the same time.

Aside from practical jokes that make people think they are losing their mind. Like walk by someone by themself, have another me wearing something else walk by, and then have like 100 of me all wearing different clothes crowd around that person chanting "you need to wake up!", then we all just walk away in silence.

I guess I could start a business and exploit myself for personal gain.

I might also let some intrusive thoughts win from time to time.

So basically I would have multiplicitous fun until the government put me in a lab or asked me to one man army some shit.

I'd become a magician and Prestige myself.

I probably wouldn't. Over time the multiple versions of me would diverge in terms of experiences and opinions. And knowing how stubborn I can sometimes be I'd probably get very annoyed with my own clones, which in turn will make me dislike myself more. It'll force me to perceive my own behaviour as an outsider, which will make me judge myself even harder.

One of me is enough :3

Have you seen that episode of my hero academia where he does just that and practically takes the city over?

Something to that effect but something beneficial like digging a trench into the desert to make it a rain forest.

Duplicate duplicate or Multiplicity duplicate?

https://youtu.be/I19IuJYbuyg

Like Dupli-Kate in Invincible (hive mind/can merge back together)? Or like Robert Angier in The Prestige (separate clone/entity)?

If the former, I'd probably use it to sow chaos amongst my political opponents (fascists) for as long as they exist.

If the latter...meh, maybe the same, but far more sparingly, as the creation of a new consciousness rather than just an extension of my own implies a far more unpredictable outcome of my/our actions.

Not duplicate myself

fuck myself.

Like a twin, or like I have both bodies and am conscious in both? Nevermind, I'm not interested in doing either of those. Now, if I could duplicate my husband I have some ideas though.

Implement my list of ideas. Although it is pretty likely we will end up watching YouTube videos together

Catalog my media library, finally.

I would not. There's enough suffering in the world.

I wouldn't mind only working every few days, but getting up to speed on what I missed would be problematic. People would probably think my memory had gone to shit. If I could solve that problem then I guess I'd make a couple duplicates and we'd share responsibilities. I don't think we'd each need an independent income since we like the same things and can just share, or take turns.

Each kid and wifey could have individual Daddy/hubby attention at the same time. My yard and home would look immaculate because my ADHD task burnout could be overcome by calling in a new helper.

I could probably make bank and help improve the lot of humanity by allowing my duplicates to go through controlled medical and scientific testing.

At some point one of me would figure out how to leverage this ability for the absolute betterment of humankind. That would probably become a driving mission for the collective me at that point.

I'd donate a lot of bodies to science

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is duplicate yourself come with cost ? Not now, but further cost ?, and danger ?

For example:

• one of your clone don't want to disappear when you want to.
• one of your clone want to become 'main' and want to make you disappear.

I'd make 1 to go to work for me. Other than that I really don't mind the rest of my life.

I would cure my loneliness.

More like who would I do 😏

Honestly, watch me do some shit and die of cringe.

What is the unconditional part here?