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Aliens have come and kidnapped the first human they came across, unfortunately, that was you. They take you to a new planet almost identical to our current Earth, but without anything man-made.

The aliens say you can have 1 million real humans to start "New Earth" and you can put them anywhere and teach them anything you want. You'll have 1,000 years to make a good New Earth and if the Aliens like it, you'll get to keep it, if not they will blow it up and try again with someone else. You will have access to old Earths internet so you will have the choice on what technologies you introduce and when. You live in the ship, but you can choose to pop in and out of New Earth as you please. You will not be burdened with all 1 million humans at once. You can choose to add a small number of them at a time until you get the proper resources established.

Edit: The humans can reproduce, and will unless you implement some form of birth control to prevent them from doing so. Also the first 1 million humans will start with the basic knowledge of how to human and you can pick personality traits for them, like you would a Sim, but the babies they make are blank slates.

You don't have to try and make it a good society, you can choose to watch the world burn for 1,000 years. Up to you.

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[โ€“] Kookie215@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You would have to explain the whole gig to every copy and I just don't think you could convince 1 million people who have memories of their friends and families and lifestyles to co-operate in starting a new society from scratch, they would just fight each other and bring back capitalism and probably blame whoever their political adversary is at the time for ending up on New Earth. Humans with Old Earth memories would be impossible to work with.

But Idk I maybe they fight for 20 years and decide they might as well give it a shot with the humans that are left and then your society starts, hard to really say. None of its ethical, thats for sure.

[โ€“] Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

You'd have to ask the aliens about the ethics, I'm just the abducted manager. But if I'm selecting copies I would easily be able to screen out uncooperative people. And they wouldn't have a choice once they were created they are just as abducted as I am, a being that wouldn't exist at all without the experiment. Their choices would be to participate in the experiment as a new being and potentially become the progenitors of a new humanity, or ostracization with the potential to have the new humanity be obliterated because of their lack of participation. Either way they will still be fed and sheltered by the collective and owe their entire existance to the experiment that created it. How many people would choose to be a hermit for the rest of their lives? And how many people who are collaborative do you need for a society this automated to function? Honestly i think people would get over their divisions quickly when their bellies are full and the rent is free. Who will care about the old life when the new one is an undreamed miracle. And if people are really sad about it we can just make some of the million copies of their family and friends as long as they aren't trying bring along their cousin Jeff Dahmer or something