Its a space of 1meter×1meterx1meter, basically a cubic meter where the matter replicator works on. (So, no replicating cars, since its too big)
How do you min-max this?
Solid cube of antimatter. Fuck you world!
Understandable. Have a great day.
That would definitely end you and a majority of the New York metropolitan area… but it wouldn’t end the world.
I suspect a lot of guns, explosives, body armor and anti-armor munitions due to the immediate civil war that would break out in most countries as the wealthy elite tells the government to confiscate everyones matter replicators.
Your view is very dystopian. And also correct.
First I’m gonna move out of my apartment since there will sure be plenty of geniuses who’s gonna produce 1 cubic meter of solid gold, and the building might not be happy about 20-ton blocks appearing out of thin air.
Replicate the replicator. Next day, use both to replicate replicators. Repeat ad nauseam.
Have the replicator print a replicator that auto-prints identical copies of itself as often as it can so you can cause the collapse of reality without having to be involved.
Hell, have the replicator print a replicator without the 24-hour cooldown to hurry things along a little
I’d never have to quit drugs! Woohoo
You mean after gold and diamonds essentially become worthless? A lot of people would definitely use it for medications.
Me getting a cubic meter of each ADHD drugs see if any works better than mine… Except on sunday, I get my weekly supply of coca cola
The main thing is positioning in order to reduce wasted space as much as possible. As someone with a 3D printer, I have a teensy bit of an idea on how to position “ready-made” to maximize space. I certainly cannot print/replicate a fully mounted car frame in a single cubic meter, but I can print parts of the frame in such a way that I can mount them like legos, if each rod is 5x5x99cm, I can fit roughly 361 (19x19, with a bit of space between them so they don’t come fused) in the cubic meter. Is that enough to make the whole frame? No idea.
Also, think about it, 1 cubic meter of sandwiches, tacos, pizza and other junk food tasting great AND being perfectly healthy. Damn, now I’m hungry.
I’d say that society as we know it would collapse fairly quickly, with it being replaced by a communist or socialist system fairly quickly. Fields that require brains would be in significant demand, as food would become a non issue. Same thing would occur with other essentials, such as food and medicine. As mentioned in other comments, money would become worthless. And there would be people who would make new replicators who would have reverse engineered their replicators.
I don’t think it would.
First, you’d have to power the device, which is likely going to take a lot of energy.
Second, the device is additive only, so it can’t address issues with built in scarcity like land.
Third, there is going to be an interesting middle ground where you still need some forms of manufacturing to run the economy.
There will be drastic changes to the economy, but I doubt that communism would fully take over.
Obviously everybody now has high end computers, cameras, a variety of lenses, phones, etc. Foldable Ebikes like the aipas would fit in the space.
1 meter solar panels are a hit but since most batteries and capacitors require materials difficult to handle it becomes highly demanded.
Every political building now has thick blastproof exteriors as making bombs has never been easier, judges live in the courthouse now.
Let’s be honest, it’ll be nothing but dildos and fleshlights for the first year and a half. We’ll be swimming in life-like toy dicks before anyone realizes we can do anything else with it.
Life-like? Do you realize how long of a tentacle you could coil into a cubic meter? It’d be like that tool assisted perfect game of Snake, but in 3 dimensions…
*chokes* Fair enough. 😶
I’d replicate some of these new graphics cards that are so hard to find.
I’d make my own studio ghibli paintings.
Day 1: create 264 gallons of water (probably enough for a month)
Day 2: create a cubic meter of food (also probably enough for a month)
Day 3 to next rationing: spend thinking of all the awesome things I could create but end up getting overwhelmed and doing nothing instead
Day 2: create a cubic meter of food (also probably enough for a month)
Now I’m just imagining a cubic meter of spam.
overwhelmed and doing nothing instead
I’m in this comment and I don’t like it
Additional day 3: be overjoyed that you can just replicate your basic needs, so you now can work less (or not at all). All that free time! Think of all the projects xou could do!
Start by replicating junk food and beer and sloth around until the evening of Day 29, panic, make plans for some way to big Project for Day 30. Day 30 replicate stuff you need for the project. Before properly starting, realize you forgot to
buyreplicate some crucial stuff buthome depot is now closedyou’ve already used the replicas quota, be discouraged, overwhelmed, give up, promise “next month is going to be different!”.
Weed, alcohol, opiates, nicotine.
Ketamine pls
