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?

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    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.

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    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.

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      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

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

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      Me getting a cubic meter of each ADHD drugs see if any works better than mine… Except on sunday, I get my weekly supply of coca cola

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    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.

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    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.

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      I don’t think it would.

      First, you’d have to power the device, which is likely going to take a lot of energy.

      Second, the device is additive only, so it can’t address issues with built in scarcity like land.

      Third, there is going to be an interesting middle ground where you still need some forms of manufacturing to run the economy.

      There will be drastic changes to the economy, but I doubt that communism would fully take over.

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    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.

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      Life-like? Do you realize how long of a tentacle you could coil into a cubic meter? It’d be like that tool assisted perfect game of Snake, but in 3 dimensions…

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    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.

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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.

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      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

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        We would have to work out how to note what happened and pass on the info. I don’t have a great memory anyway, so people are used to me forgetting what I did.