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I bet you could clone 1000 Alexanders, and none of them would be The Great. You'd need Aristotle as a tutor, and to inherit one of the best armies in the world from your dad, the king, and probably a million other little things would have to align in order to give you that combination of ambition and ability. If you can arrange all that, my intuition is that the genetic factors are probably of secondary importance.


Best I can do is raise him on a steady diet of memes and Vtubers.


You might end up with Khan Noonien Singh who will try and steal your ship then stick a bug in your ear


Not to mention that the entire opportunity gradient is gone now.




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