Ask Lemmy

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.

1. Make a nuclear bomb. You don't need a whole ICBM, a single MIRV warhead can fit in the available space.
2. Threaten to set it off if everyone in the area doesn't give me their fabricator.
3. Expand operations/nuke delivery range.
4. Have a monopoly on the means of production again.

This is how people brainwashed by capitalism would use it to deprive us all of the post-scarcity future. We can only hope some more reasonable people also think of making nukes first so we can at least have some mutually assured destruction to preserve the fully automated luxury gay space communism.

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

Can... Can I replicate myself?

What's the power source?

“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.

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.

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.

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.

One big sandwich 🥪

Wait. No. TWO big sandwiches 🤩

Given how greedy people are, probably gold or diamonds.

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