Ask Lemmy

“Ugh. I’m tired. Work sucked. Computer, make dinner.”

My real answer in anything because you could split a car up over multiple days just like the 3D printed Lamborghini.

I tell you right now, it's gonna be all Lego for me.

A few people could easily coordinate to have one person ceeate food, another clothing and essentials, and another could create charged batteries or other energy producing objects. Hell, with a little planning you wouldn't even need to coordinate really.

At that point the world is basically post scarcity and anyone can do anything, kinda like star trek.

Assuming no limitations on what it can make we will also be at the stage of mutually assured destruction since everyone can make a mini nuke each day they don't need something else. This will either discourage violence or wipe out large areas of the planet depending on how fast the technology is distributed, as everyone getting it overnightbwill absolutely lead to a lot of damage in areas where conflict is happening. Not to mention oppressive governments trying to control the populations replicators.

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.

Well... a turnip, obviously.

Everyone's talking about money, but I'd try to eliminate costs. First day I make some food and a couple of (full) power banks. Next few days I make some food and solar panels.

I know you say no cars, but I have family I'd trust to put one together. (I'd trust them to take mine apart to work on it.) The only odd part would be body panels? Similarly I'd try to figure out some small housing a cubic meter at a time, but that's probably also a work in progress.

I'd mix in a few personal items over the coming days of course. A new PC, new clothes, and food variety. I don't know how to get rid of Internet and land costs. I wonder if the resulting economic crash might lead to that being figured out for everyone, but I somehow doubt that.

I'd replicate some of these new graphics cards that are so hard to find.

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.

One big sandwich 🥪

Wait. No. TWO big sandwiches 🤩

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.

Make something that'll EMP everyone's replicators before people start replicating nukes.

Yes the Max is the current status quo, but given the Min is almost certainly the destruction of the world, so status quo is probably the best we can hope for.

And maybe I'd make a sandwich if there's room for it along with the EMP.

I’d make my own studio ghibli paintings.

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.

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.

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.

Weed, alcohol, opiates, nicotine.

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