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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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      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.

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    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

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      Additional day 3: be overjoyed that you can just replicate your basic needs, so you now can work less (or not at all). All that free time! Think of all the projects xou could do!

      Start by replicating junk food and beer and sloth around until the evening of Day 29, panic, make plans for some way to big Project for Day 30. Day 30 replicate stuff you need for the project. Before properly starting, realize you forgot to buy replicate some crucial stuff but home depot is now closed you’ve already used the replicas quota, be discouraged, overwhelmed, give up, promise “next month is going to be different!”.

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      Wouldn’t you need two replicators? One to be replicated and one to do the replicating? And if the replicator itself is a box (assumption since it was not specifies) the replicator would have to be larger than the max size.

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      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.

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

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

    The clever dick corollary: 1m3 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.