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?
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 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.
Solid cube of antimatter. Fuck you world!
It only takes one person to make 1 cubic meter of black hole to destroy the biosphere by ripping Earth into an acretion disc.
I like the concept of destroying the biosphere by shredding the entire fucking planet, lol.
Using a calculator I referenced further down in the thread, a back hole with a 0.5m radius so that the event horizon would fit within the cubic meter would have a mass of over 56 earths. We’d be proper fucked!
It’s a matter replicator, I don’t think a black hole is matter?
A black hole is nothing other than extremely condensed matter.
Ah, i thought it was a hole in space or something like that, so the absence of anything, and even space was something, but not matter specifically.
It is worthwhile to note that the above is highly reductive. A “black hole” is the sort of “hole” in spacetime you’re thinking of. It is caused, however, by gravitational dilation of spacetime by an incredibly high energy density. If you stuff enough matter and energy into a tiny enough space, the gravitational force will be strong enough that no other force in the universe can keep it from getting closer, and closer. Even the forces which keep neutrons and protons from combining with each other will be surmounted, as the energy density increases asymptotically toward infinity. This tiny point of effectively infinite density is the black hole’s “singularity”. Surrounding this singularity is a region where anything (matter, light, space itself) that gets within that range cannot escape. This is because objects have escape velocities based on their masses. If you’re going fast enough, you’ll fly away from the earth never to return. If you’re not going that fast, eventually you’ll fall back down. The further you are from the earth, the easier it is to escape it. The “black” part of the black hole, called the “event horizon”, is the distance from the singularity at which the black hole’s escape velocity is equal to the speed of light, meaning that, closer than that, nothing can escape it. Hence why it’s “black”, because no light is escaping from it. Technically, a black hole is not perfectly black due to hawking radiation,
and a black hole with a 0.5 meter schwarzchild radius would probably be small enough to visibly glow (just a bit).(probably not, see below)
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
overwhelmed and doing nothing instead
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Can I adjust dimensions? Like, can I replicated a car, but a tiny one that will fit in a 1x1x1m cube?
If so, I’d replicate 1/8th of the replicator, but double sized. Repeat for all other parts, assemble, and now I have a 2m³ replicator. Repeat until I have one big enough to replicate a house.
Then, the whole point of the exercise: replicate a house-sized Funyun.
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.
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.
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.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
The AI summons an extremely attractive and buff version of Charles Grey. He is holding a cup of tea and wearing absolutely nothing.
Damn these AIs are getting good at understanding exactly what I want.
What’s the power source?
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… Can the replicator produce a cubic meter of this?
I’d use it to make more replicators. Essentially have exponential replicators
I was busy thinking about that. Why not make a replicator without limits if possible? No downsides because then you’d be able to create what you want when you want. Anyone dumb enough not to think of that would be stuck using it once a day while you are able to create all you want.
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 feel the astounding energy needed to create matter would be the reason for the cooldown, so having more than one would make little difference.
My reading of the question implies that the replicator has the cool down. so having a second one will have an independent cool down.
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.
Uploading your consciousness to a machine wouldn’t really extend your lifespan. Think of it like moving a file from one device to another; the file isn’t actually moved, you just get a copy on the second device. You and your digital clone will also begin to diverge immediately as the lived experience of being a new digital entity would be different from continuing life as a meat person.
The closest you can get is to Ship of Theseus it; get a machine implant which gradually takes over brain functions as cells die or parts of the brain fail. Single stream of consciousness in a single body, now fully digitised. Incidentally this is also closer to biological processes to replace cells, though the brain cells renew much less frequently then other cell types. I think some areas don’t naturally get replaced over a lifetime too but I’m not certain on that, either way you’d want to go faster than natural cell replacement.
Alternatively you could make the transfer process dissolve your meat brain. Personally I’d say you are dead and your clone lives on but its the same argument as Star Trek style transporters; the clone still feels like it’s you so if they got to where you want to go does it really matter?
Yup, mind uploading is making a copy. If the copying process is destruct, that doesn’t make it less of a copy. Your copy would remember your decision, so it will know it’s a copy as long as it knew how the process works.
Given how greedy people are, probably gold or diamonds.
Well, with replicators scarcity becomes worthless. Diamonds, money, etc. so they’d probably replicate stuff they’d find pretty or beautiful to wear on them
Look at those nerd wearing condensed coal.
