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Solid cube of antimatter. Fuck you world!

I suspect a lot of guns, explosives, body armor and anti-armor munitions due to the immediate civil war that would break out in most countries as the wealthy elite tells the government to confiscate everyones matter replicators.

First I'm gonna move out of my apartment since there will sure be plenty of geniuses who's gonna produce 1 cubic meter of solid gold, and the building might not be happy about 20-ton blocks appearing out of thin air.

You mean after gold and diamonds essentially become worthless? A lot of people would definitely use it for medications.

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.

I’d never have to quit drugs! Woohoo

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.

Weed, alcohol, opiates, nicotine.

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.

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Get together with your neighbor, replicate the parts of each other's replicator. Repeat this daily for a bit. Exponential growth. Give it a month or so, then just go ham and make everything you want, maybe after renting a warehouse to keep them all in.

Even if you didn't want to use it for money, you'd have to use it for money somehow just to keep up with the inflation.

The obvious answer: Use your replicator to replicate more replicators.

The correct answer: The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.

The clever dick corollary: 1m^3^ is actually quite a large volume, and ain't no rule says you can only replicate one object at a time. If whatever luxury item or commodity you want is small in volume, which it probably is, don't forget you can replicate a whole bunch of it within a meter cube.

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

Day 1, I replicate a replicator kit and put it together. I also contact a realtor and let them know I'm interested in buying some land. Off grid, far from cities, doesn't matter.

Day 2, I replicate two replicator kits and put them together.

Day 3, I replicate four replicator kits. I've now got eight of them. I'm not sure I'll need sixteen, at least not right away, and my basement is starting to get a bit crowded. So I'll leave it at that for the moment, but the moment I think I need more replicator capacity I can have it.

Replicate the replicator. Next day, use both to replicate replicators. Repeat ad nauseam.

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.

The vast majority of people would make as much money as they could. Quickly, the economy implodes. People soon realize they can exchange their matter replicator for eggs. A new billionaire class arises, using their millions of matter replicators to make basic necessities for the worker class. The modern assembly line is now just row upon row upon row of matter replicators. One man per warehouse, just moving from matter replicator to matter replicator.

A few smarter people used their matter replicators to make more matter replicators. Lobbyists quickly pass "safety regulations", and these "black market" replicators are outlawed. Soon local police start advertising "amnesty", where you can bring in your illegal matter replicator and exchange it, no questions asked, for a gun.

A few unlucky people used their matter replicators to make drugs. The purity of replicated drugs quickly renders these people unable to continue using their replicators. These replicators are collected by next-of-kin, stolen by the people that exchanged their own replicator for eggs, or accidentally destroyed.

I'd use it to make more replicators. Essentially have exponential replicators

I'd probably replicate a 1x1x1m cube of tungsten, then realize I have no way of removing it from the replicator.

The moment you try to min max the economy will fall apart. Replicate new PC parts? Cool, but now intel/AMD/Nvidia will go bankrupt, no more development. So I guess you could min-max the economical revolution. Capitalism doesn't appear to make sense in a world with near endless access to anything.

Personally I'd get heaps of food and water

I hate that by now, I have found a way for capitalist to bill you anyways.

My first thought was to start work on a de-replicator. Lot of people about to have a lot of junk in their house and it'll pile up quickly.

Not sure how long it'll take until the earth becomes a black hole.

I might also try and put a few new squares on the periodic table.

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.

Can... Can I replicate myself?