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Quick confirmation: you'll kill the dude on this side of the planet - not any of the ones on the other side. Right?
Assuming that's the case, and assuming I can quell my guilt at ripping you off for a substantial sum of money, and assuming proper guarantees are put into effect so that I may be certain that the clones are properly created and financed before the original is destroyed ... N = 2. RobinX can give RobinY the money for a plane ticket back to the States and use the remainder to sign up for philosophy classes at Adelaide, and all shall be well in my book.
I think you'll find many of us willing to bite this particular bullet. I had the same reaction when Dennett and Hofstadter described a similar thought experiment in The Mind's I.
Will you do it while I'm unconscious? If so, N=2 here also (provided "the other side of the planet" is not a hostile environment).
Ooh, another good caveat - maybe we should just put in the general good-genie clause: "Assuming you're not ripping us off..."
(Actually, I'm not that bothered about the while-I'm-unconscious part.)