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Every living human is now replaced by a clone of you. How would you imagine the world to be like?

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?

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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...

We are trashgirlfriend.
We are many.
We have no idea how to operate a nuclear power plant.
- Its basically just boiling water, I'm sure you all can figure it out. Just start pressing buttons.

We're going to starve. But until the food runs out, the orgy will be massive and non-stop.
- The massive, non-stop orgy is precisely the part I'm dreading.
  
  You wouldn't even be there!

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!

The world would become pretty gay, since there wouldn't be another option.

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.

Nothing productive is going to happen ever again

Horrible.
We'd be very kind to eachother but nothing of value would be done

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.

I'm seriously impaired, so all humans will start dying in a matter of weeks.
On the plus side, everything in that book The World Without Us will come to pass, and the planet's environment and ecology will be better off.

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.

Everywhere I look, assholes! /s
We'd be fucked. My memory sucks and I'm on a heavy dose of neuro meds for pain. Flying would also be a no. I have a constant vertigo sensation.
That said, I'm usually pretty good at keeping upbeat and friendly. Not greedy. Don't care how you dress, what you worship, what you call yourself or identify as, and think you should have your own agency over your body. So at least there's that.
Sexy time would be weird too. Do I call my own name?
Oh! And I can do that mirror prank endlessly!!

I'm incredibly scrappy, so we would get by. I can farm, I can repair stuff, I have a good work ethic, and I get along well with myself.
In certain sciences, we're just fucked, though. I guess we just don't do some of that anymore.
Edit: Also, probably about 80% of the world's computer resources are now serving massive collaborative Luanti build servers. I'm not proud of this, but it's definitely what the collective mass of my selves would do with all of our free time.
Edit 2: I guess we also probably implement a worldwide tax on all income by all copies of me, to pay a few hundred copies of me to contribute to the Luanti project full time.

I'm literally killing myself

Mass exodus of society, if I rule society and I am society, then it would crumble instantly, versions of me would take over the electrical grid and infrastructure to keep it running, but other than the required precursors to that infrastructure, very few trappings of modern society would stay bar the the internet, the books, the roads but you'd see a mass rewilding and movement into wilder spaces

The world would be a far better place
- optimistic of you

The world just got a whoooole lot sexier

This happens in a comics, I'll try to remember it's name but there is a sentient, ultra violent poo-like protagonist who is kind of the hero named Schlock or something.
It's a teleport malfunction and a science guy gets multiplied like 400 million times.
- Schlock mercenary is the comics name
- Gav. Cameo from Nukees. Dude ends up outnumbering quite a few species. As the author notes, you have to be dinka-cho careful with tokjith.
  Schlock Mercenary is pretty great, I reread it every few years.
  If you like military scifi it's worth a look.
  https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-07-14

So my level of education and competence? Oh no, oh good lord no.

chiillllll. things would slow down a lot, but be efficiently run. interesting podcasts.

We'd be cracking bobiverse jokes until the world ended

I'd give it like 2 weeks.

Very quiet.

Never-ending global orgy

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

Society has finally given up on trousers completely.

A lot of deaths because of accidents and because nobody knows how to do medicine, but not a single more death because of war. And after 2-3 years of learning how to do most tasks with okay proficiency, I see a much fairer distribution of resources (food, shelter, etc.) which means less starvation deaths etc.
Also, anarchism overnight.

Change my name to Horatio.
The world would collectively chuckle at my/our stupid reference.

In that specific scenario I imagine we'd all die out fairl quick.
To begin with we'd all probably have a massive anxiety attack as a result of those events transpiring and gather in small groups all not knowing how to proceed. After the initial panic those groups might try to make a plan to survive but being that I'm not the most organised or conscientious person out there a few days in most if not all of us would say "fuck it, lets go out with a bang" and go crazy on food, booze or whatever we could get our hands on. We'd also probably start fucking each other because we're the only option.
Then we'd start dying either from misadventure, fighting over resources or just killing each other for the hell of it. I like to consider myself a peaceful and rational individual, but faced with this situation and no legal consequences? Pretty sure anybody would go nuts.
Once we get that out of our system the remaining few might try to band together to save things again. Even if we were able to come up with a serviceable plan by then it'd be too late. We wouldn't have enough resources to tide us over whilst we get on track as a society, if we even could. Then the final "mes" would die out as well.

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.

There was an episode of The Twilight Zone about this it's called The Mind and the Matter. I don't recall that it turned out well

War would be declared every morning before all the me's have had my coffee.

One giant lan party I suppose.

Kinda lonely.

Society will slowly crumble as we hold mass jerk-offs.

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.

lots of sex and then wed all die of something dumb

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.

Extinct in less than 20 years.

Some of me would probably survive. Having experience in agriculture would help there. Also, with enough of me, we might be and to keep some power generation running, as long as manuals could be found. The adaptability of AuADHD could help in a lot of ways... But the AuADHD of AuADHD would probably cause some of me to make silly oversights that on such a grand scale would get many of us killed.
On the plus side, shit would be pretty peaceful and I could get some good rest.

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