Mar 31, 2024
What would be most fucked up
Finding out you're secretly a fairy
Finding out you're secretly a walrus
Voting ended onApr 7, 2024
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What would be most fucked up
Finding out you're secretly a fairy
Finding out you're secretly a walrus
Now it's time for the true poll:
Which pair of answers did you pick
Fairy / Clone
Fairy / Robot
Walrus / Clone
Walrus / Robot
Which would be more surprising?
receiving a boop from a walrus as a robot who doesn't know they're a robot
receiving a boop from a fairy as a robot who doesn't know they're a robot
receiving a boop from a walrus as a clone who doesn't know they're a clone
receiving a boop from a fairy as a clone who doesn't know they're a clone
What would be most fucked up
Finding out you're secretly a clone
Finding out you're secretly a robot
If there were two guys on the moon and one of them killed the other with a rock
The clone vs robot thing is so weird because clone is winning and people are being like "WOULD I STILL BE A PERSON?!?" about being a clone when one would think having a man-made programmation and brain would be a perfect case for that existential dread, whereas being a clone, which is functionally like being a twin, really doesn't call for it in the slightest.
One thing about the robot vs clone discourse I've seen that makes 0 sense to me is people saying they have to kill their clone. Like??? That person might share your DNA but they're their own person they're not about to take over your life bc odds are they have their own. If you had a surprise twin would you go on a murder quest to eliminate them?
I know Nightvale's Kill Your Double was a whole thing but I'd rather chat with my clone about mental health and nature vs nurture in an attempt to commisserate on Why We're Like This
what's worse to have as an enemy
robot walrus
your fairy clone
Thinking back to that tumblr poll about wether i'd be more surprised to find out i was a clone or a robot, and it's really fascinating to think about.
Because both would come as a shock, and both would make us doubt what it means to be a human.
Clones of animals already exist, but it is only their outside appearance. If I were a clone, i would be asking what type. Is it just my body that was cloned, like those animals? And if yes, why? By whom? Or is it also my mind? Would my memories even be real? If i am made of flesh, but made artificially, then what am I? Am i cursed to live the rest of my life not knowing who i am, or what happened to the 'real' me?
And the perspective of a robot is just as interesting. Because am i a robot, or a cyborg? I would consist of flesh and metal. Do I have a brain, or is it all just code? But who's to say the normal human brain isn't also working on lines of 'code'. With hormones and certain stimuli which activate part of our brain, maybe it would be the same for me, but with zero's and one's. Would I really be considered 'less' human, just for having metal parts? If I am a robot, why make me flawed? What is the point of creating a robot that is exactly like a human, and then not treat it as one? Who are my creators? Do my parents know of this? Do I have free will? Do any of us have it?
So many philosophical questions. So few with concrete answers. The amount of existential dread would be near unbearable, but it is so intriguing.