With one-time-only use of a cloning machine, I would:
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Nobody (Score:4, Insightful)
We're badly overpopulated as it is, and no end in sight.
Doesn't matter (Score:4, Insightful)
The question is: who would you duplicate? As in, a fresh copy, indistinguishable from the original. Right now, ready to go, no waiting required.
The mind boggles.
Re:Nobody (Score:5, Insightful)
I call shenanigans.
You get offered a one-time use of an amazing, unheard-of, otherwise futuristic piece of technology, and you wouldn't use it because 7-someoddbillion + 1 is more than 7-someoddbillion?
Shenanigans!
Re:Clone the cloning machine ⦠(Score:4, Insightful)
Yes, but you could just keep cloning it, until you figure out something useful to clone. And maybe small genetic DNA errors might occur during the process, and eventually a mutant cloning machine capable of endless cloning might come out? Or, an evil cloning machine will result, that would take over the world and enslave humans.
At any rate, let's best start this process now.
What kind of cloning machine are we talking about? (Score:5, Insightful)
Didn't vote, I don't know what kind of cloning machine we're talking about: The hard sci-fi kind that doesn't copy any information in the brain and produces a baby or the soft sci-fi kind that somehow copies all information in the brain (evil bit optional) and produces an adult. I'd have very different answers depending on the type.