Would you Still Clone?

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  Would you Still Clone?

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  Can you find this ending?

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  What will you say?

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  Can you find this ending?

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  Will you create a system of clones?

Inspiration

We wanted to show how there should never be two of the same people - it leads to unanswerable questions about the ethicality of cloning.

What it does

Simulates the life of a student who has access to cloning technology. The student faces many dilemmas that challenge their morals, ethicalities, and goals as they decide what the clone can and cannot do for them.

How we built it

The simulation is a single-page React app built with Vite and TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS and themed with shadcn/ui components, and animated with Framer Motion for the cinematic narration, choice card transitions, and clone avatar expressions. The clone figure itself is hand-built SVG that swaps eyes, mouth, posture, and ambient effects per emotion, and multiplies into a row when the narrative state's cloneCount rises. We used Claude to create and animate the stick-figures (representing the clones) as well as analyze the individual's decision-making to create comprehensive endings with variety. Additionally, Claude was used to format the UI to make the website more visually-appealing.

Challenges we ran into

Ensuring that there was a dynamic between the different ending, and making sure that each ending had a comprehensive overview (not a repetitive overview) of how the user changed or behaved from the perspective of the clone.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the fact that we created a unique idea that poses a comprehensive moral overview that challenges the user to think about the consequences of cloning.

What we learned

We, ourselves, engaged in philosophical questions (e.g., How does a clone develop their own identity if they are a carbon copy of the individual?) as we tried to shape the simulation. From this, we learned that human ethicality is not simply black-and-white, it is much more sophisticated than is perceived.

What's next for Would you Still Clone?

We're looking toward freeing the user's ability to answer the questions: instead of having three various answer choices, the user should be able to respond with their own personalized, unique moral portfolio.

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