Ask Lemmy

We know it can replicate multiple objects at once, because tea earl grey hot and the cup it comes in are multiple objects, and Picard often gets it on a saucer as well. So I would create a pile of everything I need for that day.

You say it can create an object of a single M3.

I create a second one by replicating the parts.

May take a while but when the second one comes online the third one will be even faster.

I can fit me in about that space, so maybe a copy of myself. We could trade off working and playing. That would double my leasure time.

I’d never have to quit drugs! Woohoo

Well, that gives you infinite energy, since you can produce energy-containing stuff.

Hmm.

On one hand, a lot of competition for resources go away.

On the other hand, that's also pretty disruptive.

I think that that world is going to have a lot of sudden challenges. You don't have scarcity of any material or existing item that you can break down to less than a 1m cube unless you need it in great bulk, but you also have no ability to control production of things like firearms, explosives, drugs, physical proofs of identity, missiles, weaponized drones, etc.

I can imagine countries or organizations trying to seize the supply of replicators.

Given how greedy people are, probably gold or diamonds.

Weed, alcohol, opiates, nicotine.

a smaller replicator that just fits into the space and continue till the space could only do like a gumdrop.

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.

Is the 24 hour thing the only limitation? Can it replicate stuff that doesn't exist yet?

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.

Clean up the streets, feed garbage into the replicator to be used as fuel/raw materials

Buy land on earth.

As fast as possible.

I'd use it to make food

Beyond the easy answers of replicating the machine itself or covering basic needs, I think it would be interesting to make a super computer with a small form factor capable of mind uploading. Then you print a replacement body in a position that fits within a cubic meter and presumably you can extend your life for a bit. A simpler alternative would be to replicate medicines that have been shown to extend healthspans in the short term and just take them in the recommended dosage when you need to.

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