鴉PieFedEvery person in the world now owns a matter replicator, but due to the limitations of the technology, there is a 24-hour cool-down in between each use. How would people use this technology?
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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?
Any warzone is about to go absolutely nutty.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
One cubic meter of it.
Classic prank at the Academy - never play it on a Nausicaan.
The AI summons an extremely attractive and buff version of Charles Grey. He is holding a cup of tea and wearing absolutely nothing.
Damn,
daddyCharlie looks like he could be packing.Damn these AIs are getting good at understanding exactly what I want.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cG6PVEE90_o&pp=0gcJCfcAhR29_xXO
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.
If you can disassemble them, this is probably a good way to eliminate bounds on throughput, but honestly, even a little coordination permits for pretty enormous throughput from the get-go. You've got a lot of people out there.
I feel the upper limit of this is probably depends on how many simultaneously unrelated things you can put on the print bed at once. Like, can I have it print me a pair of shoes, 6 sandwiches, an SD card and a bag of cat kibble all at once? Or is it going to make 6 SD kibble card sandwiches on shoe-bread? 1m³ will hold my entire groceries list for the week, but if I have to print each item individually I'll starve.
Well... 1m^3 of rice, then the next day 1m^3 of beans, then the next day 1m^3 of potatoes, etc. - you might not like what you're eating for the first few days, but I think you could pretty quickly accumulate enough ingredients in massive quantities to make some pretty nice meals, even if that limitation does exist.
Or get together with a few neighbors, each person makes one of the basic necessities on the first day, you all split it evenly, and now you can make decent-well balanced food from day 1.
Now make enough food to give you time for a project. A complete car engine can fit within 1 m3. So can 4 wheels. Power is going to be a problem, but you could probably make 20 solar panels at once. Now your power problems are solved. And if you have solar power, you might as well make some batteries. How much power can 1 m3 of sodium batteries hold? Not enough? Well, then make another.
So now you have food and power, and you can make a car if you really want. Or you can make an electric scooter in one day. A recumbent electric bike might take 2, and an enclosure for it might take a couple more.
You're now 2 weeks in, have a month's supply of food or more left, all your power needs met, transportation. What's next? Well, the bad news is your TV will have to be slightly smaller than 60" if you print it from corner to corner in the replicator, but that isn't a bad size. If multiple things can be printed at once, you can also print a high-end computer and VR kit. If not, this might take a couple days extra. Print a small fridge or two, or, better yet, a stackable fridge freezer set. What, those don't exist? Make them, or get the designs from someone else. Make a nice stove if you don't have one. Now your food creation and storage options are completely covered, as well as home entertainment. Might as well make yourself some nice furniture, comfort is key, and don't forget the bed. Make some nice clothes, too.
So you're about a month in and food is running out. So make some more food before you run out. After that, start adding real luxuries. Spices, seasonings, cookware and other home incidentals. At this point, you probably only need to replace consumables. You should have been doing this earlier, but talk to your neighbors and friends. Visit their places, try new foods, get new ideas for how to make your life better, keeping in mind that doesn't just include stuff.
Now I'm imagining the prank potential here. Sneak into your Buddy's house and order a cubic meter of baked beans!
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.
In Stephenson's "Diamond Age" novel, even the super poor had basic access to in-home replicators. They were limited to pretty basic items, but they were available.
With everyone having access to basic goods, the rich people would go to villages of artisans that would hand make items to get unique, one of a kind things, as most crafts were now basically lost skills to most of society.
Throughout the story, the tech is explored and eventually hacked to upend society by removing limits on what can be generated by the replicator.
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.
One cubic meter fits a literal ton of whatever you want.
Not booze :(
Enough pure ethanol to make two and a half tons of vodka.
One cubic meter of neutronium, please.
A metric ton, anyway, and provided whatever you want is water.
Nah, it can also do a ton of anything denser than water, or anything that can be compressed to be denser than water.
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.
Thanks for the input von Neumann.
Plot twist: every replicated replicator degrades slightly in subtle ways, like making glass less smooth, or making food taste a little bit stale. After the fourth cycle, bananas taste a bit like warm mayo.
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
I'm in this comment and I don't like it
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
buyreplicate some crucial stuff buthome depot is now closedyou've already used the replicas quota, be discouraged, overwhelmed, give up, promise "next month is going to be different!".Now I'm just imagining a cubic meter of spam.
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
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.
Mmmmm, onion-y.
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.
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.
Because then you can use those replicators to replicate anything you want
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.
Solid cube of antimatter. Fuck you world!
Understandable. Have a great day.
That would definitely end you and a majority of the New York metropolitan area… but it wouldn’t end the world.
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.
Nah, economy would suffer and adapt, but not technology or science. Engineers still would get together and work on new designs, but not for money.
Seriously, we don't give a shit, if we have enough to eat and buy some fun toys we're thrilled to keep up our mad experiments.
Have fun living in a 1m3 house.
Wait... So getting ample food and water to common people is a downside to capitalism?
Yea you are right, if people are fed and satisfied. They wont be needing any unnecessary stuff that feeds the capitalist.
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.
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.
That doesn't work out. Unfortunately.
Reason:
When it was politicians who fought the Cold War, they were few who had actually a say, and these few got some minimum brain, at least.
But in your scenario, it is random jerks who execute that scheme everywhere. There will be some who pull the trigger just for ... all kinds of stupid shit that has triggered them. So you'd have nukes going off somewhere, at least every few days, and then nobody can really rule the world anymore with them. The power of the threat will be gone.
Politicians didn't fight the Cold War. It wasn't pasty fat men in their 60s training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan or on the front lines of Korea or any of a dozen other proxy wars. Politicians, as a rule, tend to avoid things that pose a serious risk to their health (which makes it kind of ironic that they tend to spend their careers putting other people in proximity to those things instead, doesn't it?)
Eh.. maybe one or two. But most people (like the politicians above, funnily enough) tend to have a pretty strong survival instinct. I agree it would absolutely be chaos, but most people wouldn't think of making a nuke, much less know what kind of nuke they should make, or even how to make one in a 1m3 box, they would just get regular guns and chemical weapons and shit. Still lots of chaos. Just less radiation.
I do not count these as the Cold War.
Proxy wars have their special funding and maybe false motives, but they are hot wars. Real wars.
The Cold War consisted of threats. Piling up weapons, bombs, nukes, and counting and comparing who's got more of them. These threats were made mainly by politicians. Maybe I was wrong in saying they "fought" it.
..okay. Historians do, though, so I hope you understand if I go with them on this one. Also those were just examples, if you don't like them there are plenty of other proxy wars you can pick from to see my point illustrated pretty much everywhere.
That's fair though, it was more than just one thing, and like most things in life it's far more complex than it seems on the surface. I just take particular exception to any suggestion that politicians in any way risked their neck for literally anything ever.
Why do you go for a MIRV if your warhead doesn't even leave the atmosphere?
Not MIRV, a MIRV warhead - as in a single warhead from the payload of a MIRV missile. And the reason is because regular warheads wouldn't fit in the 1m3 space.
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.
Your view is very dystopian. And also correct.
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.
Can... Can I replicate myself?
Cruxifux gang bang!
You can replicate yourself when you were a kid...
...wait a minute, what are you trying to do? I think its illegal. 🤨 📸👮♂️🚓
I'm an average woman, at 168 cm height I can easily fit in a cubic metre if I crouch or lay in fetal position.
I often feel like I could accomplish so much more if I had a clone. Just one, more than one clone would become an expense
Anyway if that's not an option then I'd replicate a variety of:
dollar bills.
Jewellery, gold and precious gems.
Computers, and phones, especially if I can sell some of its parts such as the graphics card
Other luxury items such as parfum, spirits, etc
Eggs
I don't know, I feel most of these things would lose their value pretty quickly if everyone had a replicator. Kind of like what AI is doing to the creative arts. Only this time it would be the rich getting affected, not struggling artists
This thing can't replicate a house. I know, I know I fit inside a cubic metre but having a house that size is a bit restrictive. I was hoping for something more spacious.
If you're short, yea.
Dwarf army!
I'm average. I know I can fit inside a cubic metre
You mean after gold and diamonds essentially become worthless? A lot of people would definitely use it for medications.
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
What's the power source?
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... Can the replicator produce a cubic meter of this?
"Ugh. Why is this machine always sticky?!"
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In that case none of them work
I bet I can find some buddhists willing to help.
“Ugh. I’m tired. Work sucked. Computer, make dinner.”
My real answer in anything because you could split a car up over multiple days just like the 3D printed Lamborghini.
Give me a Star Trek-style replicator and I'm never cooking dinner again.
TIL about the 3d printed lambo. this is COOL AS FUCK!
i kind of want to 3d print myself a lambo. gonna dust off my old prusa.
I’ve gotten to see it in person and it’s a real accomplishment. A large part of the frame was made from scratch and a few components were donated by Lamborghini themselves. The dude’s really chill.
I tell you right now, it's gonna be all Lego for me.
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!
Talk about giving power to the masses, governments beware or we go boom
So you would have to replicate a percent of the mass of the sun. Seems feasible. The electricity bill would be nuts, but the world is ending anyway.
Use the replicator to make power duh
It's a matter replicator, I don't think a black hole is matter?
A cubic meter of the core of a neutron star would still count as matter. While it probably wouldn't literally destroy the Earth, I wouldn't want to be on the same...continent...when that thing went off.
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)According to a random black hole calculator I found, a black hole with a 0.5m radius would be over 56 earth masses and the temperature would only be 0.000364 K. So, still orders of magnitude less than the cosmic microwave background.
I know smaller black holes evaporate faster, but even that little thing (according to the calculator) would have a lifetime of a gargantuan multiple of the age of the universe. Like roughly a number followed by 45 zeros, times the age of the universe.
The calculator: https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiation-calculator
Thank you! I didn't feel like checking with the difference in masses, and based my assumption on Stephen Hawking's statement that an earth-mass black hole (with an event horizon the size of a pea) would glow from Into The Universe: The Story of Everything. It seems he exaggerated, assuming this calculator is accurate and my understanding of its values is fair. Such an exaggeration is disappointing, if not entirely surprising.
super dense matter
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.
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.
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.
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...
*chokes* Fair enough. 😶
I'd replicate some of these new graphics cards that are so hard to find.
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.
family...trust them to build a car...guys! I found Vin diesels lemmy account!
I’d make my own studio ghibli paintings.
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.
You might like the novel Singularity Sky. It's about a planet, artificially maintained at a 19th-century tech level by its authoritarian government, which is suddenly visited by a post-scarcity civilization. Cellphones begin to rain from the sky all over the planet and whoever picks one up is given an offer: Tell us a story and we'll give you anything you desire. One person asks for a self-replicating replicator with a fully stocked blueprint library and it ends up being extremely disruptive in many of the ways you're imagining.
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.
Trek Replicators use patterns, so the tea was programmed to be in a mug. You'd have to program whatever goodie bags you wanted.
Picard's tea came in different mugs too. We don't know if he programmed it that way or if AI picked a mug each time. The point is that if it can make tea and a mug in one go, it should have no problem with clean clothes, a frisbee and a hot breakfast.
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.
This sounds like owning a 3d printer.
Yes.
3d printer won't make the electrical box, the steppers etc.
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.
It can't be the energy. It has to be a matter rearranger, not something that makes matter from raw energy. Consider a cubic meter of water. It will have a mass of 1000 kg. By E=mc^2, that water has a mass energy of 9e19 Joules. New homes in the US are built with 200 amp panels, delivering power at 120V. The typical new home can draw up to 24,000 Watts from the grid.
At this max output, it would take a house 120 million years to draw enough electricity to create a cubic meter of water from nothing but pure electrical energy.
So this thing must actually work as a matter rearranger. You provide it a supply of pure elements and it synthesizes from there. Or, if it's fancy, it creates elements by rearranging nuclei. But it can't be something that truly creates matter ex nihilo.
My reading of the question implies that the replicator has the cool down. so having a second one will have an independent cool down.
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 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
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.
One big sandwich 🥪
Wait. No. TWO big sandwiches 🤩
Too late, gotta wait till tomorrorw
Now you have to spend the next 24 hours in regret 🤣
A very large breakfast burrito, maybe.
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.
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.
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.
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?
But your mind already operates this way. Human consciousness is naturally discontinuous. Your consciousness is essentially a program that runs on the hardware of your mind. And your consciousness is not a continuous thing. If you've ever been sedated for a surgery, you'll know that when you're sedated, you are just *gone.* You don't dream. You don't drift. You just don't exist for however long you are under. The experience of sedation is the experience of death.
And beyond that, your consciousness ceases every time you go to sleep. Yes, there are some periods of the sleep cycle, such as REM sleep, where your consciousness is active in an odd state. But there are others where again, no one is home. There are periods of every night where your conscious mind ceases to exist entirely.
"You," a conscious mind experiencing the universe, exist for less than a day. Tomorrow a new version of you will be spun up to experience the world, including all of your memories. But the you of your current conscious self will cease to exist this very night.
If I go to sleep, and instead of a new copy of my consciousness springing up tomorrow in my body, a copy activates on a computer, is that still me? Really, I don't see why not. Both would have my full memories. Both would have my personality. Neither would be a direct continuation of my conscious experience. Ultimately, they're both copies of my current conscious self.
I will not live past today. I, you, and every other human consciousness exist but for a single day (in normal sleep conditions.) We exist in a chain of such iotas of life, the self of each day passing the torch to the self of the next. Each self is united only by shared memory. That is how every human consciousness experiences life.
Everyone wonders if uploading your mind to a machine will extend your lifespan. What they should be wondering is if waking up each morning does the same.
Try to make the most of each day. Remember, you only get one.
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.
I believe you are right. I should've been clearer in my original post, but I was envisioning getting the memories/upload state into the brain of the new body, not staying as a digital copy. My thought was that if you included memories up until the moment of death for your original self that it could be a semblance of "seamless continuation" because the clone would indeed think it is the original. However, at best, like you pointed out, it isn't so much extension of life as replacement.
In the scheme of things, my preferences for life extension tech methods in order of "preserving the original" would be: organ replacement -> nanobots/gene tweaks -> cyborgization -> cryonics -> mind uploading to a new body
I suppose a matter replicator could advance tech in each area to make them more likely to occur though given that research would no longer have material constraints.
Buy land on earth.
As fast as possible.
Weed, alcohol, opiates, nicotine.
Ketamine pls
Is the 24 hour thing *the only* limitation? Can it replicate stuff that doesn't exist yet?
This is a matter replicator, not a matter plicator
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Clean up the streets, feed garbage into the replicator to be used as fuel/raw materials
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.
a smaller replicator that just fits into the space and continue till the space could only do like a gumdrop.
I'd use it to make food
I'm mean, obviously Kelly Brooke.
I make another Elon.
And then another on the next day, and then another etc. When I have got a dozen of them, I let them loose on the real one and on each other and watch whatever happens.
Next I make another Trump...
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It's called a 3D printer.
6 kilos of fine aged opium please