Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:52:07 UTC No. 16248818

why would anyone want to clone themselves

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 05:57:02 UTC No. 16248824

>>16248818
So that one of my clones could come out as trans and get gay married to the other clone in a wedding with me as the father of the bride while the other clones are the ring bearer and flower girl

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:02:42 UTC No. 16248829

>>16248818
>he doesn't want a female clone of himself
gay

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:11:25 UTC No. 16248832

>>16248818
The purpose of life is to proliferate one's genes and to have one's genes dominate relative to other genes. You can't do better in life than to create lots of clones of yourself and bequeath your wealth to them.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:12:57 UTC No. 16248835

>>16248818
>why would anyone want to clone themselves
>about to die
>make clone of yourself at 20 years old
>spend the last 5 years teaching your clone all your best knowledge and tricks
>transfer all properties and legal right and duties to your clone
>die
>repeat this forever
basically a pseudo way to be immortal.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:50:31 UTC No. 16248862

>>16248806
It only became possible back in 2018 with the successful cloning of a crab eating macaque. The epigenetic breakthroughs that allowed that also apply to humans as fellow primates. Cloning's been a thing for a while in other types of animals, but primates have some odd quirks that made it a bit tricky.

Basically, you gotta take one of your fibroblasts (skin cells) and remove its nucleus. Then you plop that nucleus into an egg that's had its nucleus removed. It's a little more complex that just that but it's not too difficult. If you knew one of the more competent cell biologists on first name basis, you could maybe pay them under the table to do it for you for a hefty price. And then if you're a man you would also have to hire a surrogate mother.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:56:37 UTC No. 16248866

>>16248835
Wasn’t this a book

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:59:23 UTC No. 16248868

>>16248806
The technology exists since we've cloned sheep and apes perfectly.

I'm pretty sure it has been done, but it's kinda lame to do it anyway; most humans are successful because of experience and not just a body; and obviously you are nowhere near "immortal" that way since it's not your brain.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:00:53 UTC No. 16248871

>>16248868
Also it would be a severe handicap for a very simple extra reason. If you have an army of clones (or just a population), the enemy can just target it with virus or other means that targets that specific person very well.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:18:23 UTC No. 16248894

>>16248868
>and obviously you are nowhere near "immortal" that way since it's not your brain
Basically this

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:23:08 UTC No. 16248902

>>16248868
We haven't cloned apes yet, not officially anyways. Just monkeys.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Jun 2024 07:27:38 UTC No. 16248910

>>16248902
Doesn't matter. The genetic material is for that context's purposes almost identical. I'm sure it has been done or at least it's primed to be done as we speak but I just don't think it's that useful either.