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Legal rights would probably be an AND situation rather than an OR, or maybe some sort of majority-rule situation.
by benlivengood 5y ago
Legal rights would probably be an AND situation rather than an OR, or maybe some sort of majority-rule situation.
- shard 5y agoThat could get complicated fast. Imagine ten thousand copies of your brain, all with different ages, experiences, and opinions, deciding what to do with your money, how to educate your children, what kind of relationship you want with your spouse.
- benlivengood 5y agoRomance could get complicated for monogamous people. Polyamorous partners would negotiate new agreements about duplicates. Marriage as an institution would probably dissolve due to impracticality; it would be equivalent to a series of divorces and remarriages with each duplication, and two-partners-per-marriage would be a weird constraint. Resource constraints are certainly an issue; the fairest way seems like pre-allocating a subset of resources to each duplicate who in turn can do the same. Societal restrictions on creating a duplicate with too few resources would prevent effective slavery or abject poverty.