[dylan604]

>I wholly expect everyone to clone themselves a couple of thousand times

Unless each of those clones can upload the unique experiences to my original self so that the original me gains from those experiences, then what's the point of the clone? Just build a generic robot. The only caveat would be if that clone is just doing boring drone work but solely based on the abilities of the original me, but please, do not upload those mundane experiences back to the original me.

A good use of a clone for me would be to send a clone me to a colony on Mars. Send a fleet of clone me on a multi-generation ship to distant stars. Leave a clone me at work doing whatever, while original me is traveling and experiencing the rest of this globe.

[saiya-jin]

Ah, a new hardcore rigid caste system, the originals and endless clones bearing all the hard and boring part of lives... what could go wrong, right?

A sidenote - if you only had cool and positive experiences in life, that would become a new baseline - everything worse would be a suffering. Not so smart approach for long term happiness.

The best tasting food is after some starvation, even if its just bread... even in literal sense, as some proper mountaineers coming close to dying from starvation can attest.

[dylan604]

if you want to make it into a cast system, i think that says more about you than anything. i consider them much more my minions as i twirl my mustache with an sly grin

[Lacerda69]

what the point of a robot? just have a kid, it's more flexible and smart than any robot in the forseeable future

[dylan604]

just wow. have you got some twisted morals.

[Lacerda69]

im just saying that the development of a human like robot is not necessary. if that robot is as smart as a human you might as well use actual humans.

[dylan604]

not all humans are as smart as other humans. once you have a robot, each robot after that will be the same. you can keep trying to have more humans, but each one is a total crap shoot on the quality