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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.
One big sandwich 🥪
Wait. No. TWO big sandwiches 🤩
Wait. No.
Too late, gotta wait till tomorrorw
Now you have to spend the next 24 hours in regret 🤣
A very large breakfast burrito, maybe.
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.
I’d never have to quit drugs! Woohoo
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.
hmm... since you'd still need to remember what happened at work, you'd have to let your replicant continue going to work... unless they want to replicate themselves and join you on the couch
a smaller replicator that just fits into the space and continue till the space could only do like a gumdrop.
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.
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.
Buy land on earth.
As fast as possible.
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 use it to make food
Is the 24 hour thing the only limitation? Can it replicate stuff that doesn't exist yet?
