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You can create matter. (self.asklemmy)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Charlotte_Thomassen to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

You just find out you are living in virtual world (simulation) and was grant permission to freely create matter. You can create anything, as long as you know it. The admin use you as test subject and see what happen if you have that such ability.

You have 2 ability:

  • Inspect the item: the item is near you, in your eyesight, or you can touch the item with your body part (no need eyesight now). Then the item property, material, schema, ... is written in your brain.
  • Create a item: create a carbon copy of what you inspect (copy a dollar bill), or you can create new stuff with your creativity (got to start somewhere, scan some basic material like sand, water, ... first then build with basic material)

So, what should you do ?

Others "thing", law of physics, people/biology behaviours as normal.

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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Some people are going to have a creepy doll that they can't get rid of and I am going to have a lot less time on my hands as I see to that.

I'll start a car dealership selling exotic cars for the price of a very used Honda, we do accept any trade-in 1:1.

My street magic will be legendary.

How many watermelons can you fit in the toilet stall of public restroom? You will find out on the news.

I'm definitely never paying for printer ink again.

Why is there an exact copy of the great pyramid in the middle of New Mexico?

Sometimes I would get bored and just fill a valley with flowers, to the ridge.

Don't ever allow me unsupervised access to the trunk of your car, unless you really like Beanie Babies or Pogs.

You want that hot new item that is impossible to find? I can get you all the spaghetti or netti pots you want instead.

Don't give me item duplication or manifestation, there will be chaos and so many rubber ducks in random places.

[-] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

there will be chaos and so many rubber ducks in random places.

I now have you tagged as James Veich.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

I remember confusing him and Max Fosh at many occasions.

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I'd copy my cat and call the copy "Copycat".

[-] all-knight-party@kbin.run 14 points 5 months ago

"master, why was I born?"

"So I could make a wordplay joke"

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago

I would stick mostly to consumables - food, etc. Maybe some mass produced goods that I could easily donate anonymously. It would be extremely useful and unlikely to catch the wrong kind of attention.

[-] Charlotte_Thomassen 4 points 5 months ago

What kind of attention you might want to avoid ?

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 months ago

The kind that would lock me in a basement replicating expensive-but-useless-on-their-own military components.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Couldn't you just make people to deal with those people? They want you to build an army, they can't stop you from making it fiercely loyal to you.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Its fuck around time. Filling the Sahara with fresh water, ~~Teslas~~ Rivians for everybody, comical amounts of weed.

[-] 0_0j@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Filling the Sahara with fresh water,

You do know that water will just disappear in few minutes due to the type of sand there, right?

I believe vegetation is a proper solution for that.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

You do know that water will just disappear in few minutes due to the type of sand there, right?

You do know I can make unlimited water in this hypothetical, right?

Before you say anything else: Knowing you live in a simulation means no longer particularly caring about long term consequences.

[-] 0_0j@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago
[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

The first thing I learn to replicate: coffee.
My cup gets empty, just point a finger in and squirt out another cup.

This is going to be followed by water and various food items and gasoline. My wife would be in on the secret, I'd keep the kids in the dark as much as possible. Now it's time to try and generate a living. Creating cash is a no-go as it's serialized and someone is going to notice bills showing up with the same numbers. I'd also avoid most high value, finished goods, as those also tend to be serialized and might get noticed. It's not that I wouldn't catalog them, but that would be for emergencies. For a while (probably years), life would continue as normal. I'd just be saving a lot of money by not buying groceries, sundries or most things I could get by handling it in a store and replicating it at home. Anything big or obvious gets bought normally. This is things like cell phones or cars. But, by shaving a lot of the regular costs, I suspect I could save up a good bit in a reasonable amount of time.

Once I have the funds, it's time to move to phase two. Locate a claim in Alaska which is both somewhat likely to have gold, is close enough to a town to visit with a short drive, and has a scenic spot to build a house. Buy a nice R/V and spend a few weeks every summer prospecting on the land and building out a homestead. I'll need to start visiting home improvement stores to catalog the materials along with visiting conventions and the like to handle samples of other stuff needed to build. I'd be aiming for as much of a net-zero, off-grid home as possible. Internet would be via Starlink (which would be bought and paid for). And most of the other stuff (food, materials, etc.) get's zapped into existence.

The "prospecting" part of the trip would be real enough. The finds would just be padded, a bit. The first few summers will result in finding nothing but gold dust and maybe a nugget or two gets added over time. Nothing big, nothing notable. Just enough that it makes sense for me to keep going back. This trip would be a family tradition (I'm sure the kids would hate it), but it's how we spend a couple weeks every year. This goes on with finds being padded out more over time with most of the money going into stocks, bonds and other investments. My paycheck would also be mostly used this way, keeping enough to pay for unavoidable costs like taxes, trips and services. When the home is ready, sell the R/V and use it as the base of operations for prospecting. This all goes on until the kids are grown and moved out. We continue to live in our current home, the kids keep going to school and doing the normal growing up and getting prepared for life. Nothing changes for them and they get a normal, stable childhood. Once they are on their way, the wife and I move to Alaska permanently. I continue working (I already work remotely) and prospecting until the investments are big enough that we can live off the interest comfortably with the principal growing 3-5% per year to keep up with inflation. Though, I kinda suspect this would happen before the kids are fully grown. With my ability to just create the food, sundries and fuel we need, we'd be saving money pretty quick.

And then, we just live. I'm not going to save the world, I don't think I can. If I can generate enough money, I would start donating to worthwhile causes. Things which provide water, food and micro-business loans. I really want to avoid discovery and ending up as a lab rat or having my family ripped apart as various government agencies try to figure out if my ability is genetic. Anything I do, which gets me noticed, results in my kids not getting to have normal lives. And that is goal number 1, my family gets to live a normal, happy life. Depending on how the ability works, I might go for a MAD style option over this. If I can create objects very fast and at far enough distances, I'd work to learn as powerful of explosives as possible over the years (nuclear weapons if the option reasonably presents itself, not sure how it would). If I am discovered, the threat becomes "leave my family alone or I blow the fuck out of everything, everywhere, all at once".

But ya, that's basically it. My kids grow up and have a trust fund waiting for them when my wife and I kick it. My wife and I get to retire as far away from other people as possible. We grow old hiking and playing video games together. Considering family history and actuary tables, I'll die first and she can spend her last years (possibly decades, based on her family history) dotting on grandkids and hopefully finding someone else to be happy around in those years.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I apologize now for the hostility I'm about to through your way, but this is probably the post the upsets new the most on this thread. You have 4 paragraphs and 864 words, explaining a fantastically well thought out premise and long term plan that is so absolutely achievable that you could literally do this right now with a like $100k extra.

With a mix of imagination and diligent scanning you could make yourself your own distinct content with no long term tectonic impact on the planet and a technocratic government that runs everything with a goal of perfect balance between human comfort and long term global stability. You could retire there with your family within the first year to watch your children grow up as the first generation of a true utopia.

You could populate the universe with so many tardigrades that the simulation you exist in crashes, or place a bowl of soup on the head of every cat on the planet, or make a new constellation to name after your wife, but instead the real life version of God mode isn't actually part of your 10 year plan. It's just a well managed lottery win. It's this what those wackos are talking about when they preach about internalizing the system? Because if so they're a lot less nuts than I originally thought.

Get off lemmy, do some research into properties in Alaska and gold speculation. This is so genuinely possible of a life goal that I genuinely believe you deserve to achieve it.

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[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 points 5 months ago

I think the rate of matter creation is going to be important. I mean, if I can manifest rocket fuel faster than the engine can burn it, I'm going to be pulling 7g's all the way to mars.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

You could restart the core of Mars and make it stable enough to support atmosphere qnd terraform the planet

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Forkbomb. Continuously create copies of myself, which will continuoulsy create copies of themselves. See how long it takes to guru the whole damn thing.

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

So basically Mr. Meeseeks scenario without the short lifespan drama.

[-] Wanangwa_Bamidele@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 months ago

I will duplicate paper cash. Technically, it is fake cash, because serial is duplicate. But in term of material, it is as good as real cash. I just need to acquire enough real cash with difference serial number, then it would be good to go.

Oh, and I will find a job where I receive payment/tip in cash, which harder to track my money flow. I work like 3 years, slowly deposit my cash into bank (because you can only buy big stuff with money transfer, not cash), lie (increase my income/tip) on my tax report to PAY MORE TAX (so it is easier to put more cash into bank, transfer dup money into real money), buy bitcoin with cash, then occasional transfer into legit market, dump into bank money.

Move out of city, go to rural area, buy a lot. Retire.

Nobody know about my ability, not my wife or child. Remember, they are simulation agent like me. They are not real. Me include. So, don't fuck yourself up, take it easy life.

[-] apex32@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Why mess with cash and money laundering? Just create a large chunk of gold.

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

This is a great idea, although I'm not sure how the gold circulation control works. Don't you have to reveal where did you get from etc.? If not then this is the perfect plan.

[-] Trail@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Go to a museaum, copy an old Greek or roman gold coin in your pocket. Go home, copy many more gold coins. Go to a shipwreck or ruin, dig a bit, produce the coins and voila!

I hope you can get to keep them thought instead of archeological offices. Maybe checkout country policies first.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Or casino chips. But carefully. Very carefully.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Why mess with money at all? Make food, make water, make shelter, make legal documents verifying your ownership, hell, make people if you need to.

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago

Some people are answering as if you can transmute stuff and yes if that is the case I would remove a lot of pollution but if its just create I would work on getting enough money to buy an island and then claim I had come across large deposits of rare earths and tritium and stuff to make sustainable energy as cheap as possible. maybe carbon fiber as well as it can make many things more efficient and use less power. I would ahead of time have the formulas for many types of munitions as well to handle the assaults the oil companies would throw at me.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You have an island, the oil companies have been assaulting that island since their inception; they don't need to send an assassin, they only need to wait for the waters to rise.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Inspect everything needed to create another society

Inspect a rocket, create a rocket

Learn how to safely operate rocket

Inspect earth, leave earth in rocket

Create 2nd earth, live on second earth and watch what happens on first earth while living life peacefully on 2nd earth

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Start a business selling my services as a duplicator, “No, these aren’t mere ‘forgeries’, I make exact copies of whatever you want, sir.” Can I copy people or living things too? That would expand the business, but otherwise I’d become self-employed being a copy artist. I might tour art museums and pick up copies of some of the best pieces.

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago
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[-] ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Lithium hydroxide. To remove as much carbon as I please from the atmosphere.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

You need 1kg per gram of co2 absorbed You will also need to thoroughly aerate it as well.

So, 40 gigaton of excess co2, you need 40 teraton

That is per year, evenly spread out.

I recommend calcium oxide instead, 700gram co2 per kg !

[-] ItsMeForRealNow@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

We have a new problem now then lol. Too late. I'm not the one who gave me powers. Ask op.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Aerogel and graphene plate the size of plywood

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Corrupt politicians, corrupt law makers, and billionaires get a gram of francium magicked into the center of their brain.

All religious writing becomes saturated with an enzyme that dissolves the paper; hard drives with religious text saved to it become filled with the strongest magnetic material known, destroying their contents and shorting every circuit within; religious carvings are filled in with the missing material, etc. All of it, gone. Attempts to recreate get the francium. Attempts to spread it verbally get a few drops of water in the trachea.

Then it's straight to NASA to demonstrate the ability and put it to work doing things like manifesting materials in space and otherwise following the guidance of people much smarter than myself.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

Add to that, start offsetting global pollution at scale. All rubbish in the world's waters turns into water.

Time to solve climate change and water pollution!

Next, feel free to eliminate anyone who was against you doing these things.

Then, charge space agencies to recreate rockets, become a trillionaire.

[-] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Why do you need money if you can manifest anything you can imagine?

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

To pay for people's time. Even with the ability to create anything, you cannot create ideas. You need people for that.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Exactly. You can't really manifest serial number-based products like phones, money, etc. and that's why you need money

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[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I'mma play Minecraft then. Build a house.

[-] Lolman228@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago

I would make a really big penis in Manhattan to prove a point

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I can create matter, but can I transmute matter?

Can I create things that don't exist in our current world?

I would transmute the plastic in the ocean back to water with the correct salinity.

I would create a replicator, like the Star Trek ones where anything and everything can go in as inputs and whatever you want can come out as outputs. Both small household units and big ones to use at landfills to create building materials.

I would create many different strains of all our food plants that could thrive in the current climate, and also create a fuel (using the industrial replicators) that could be used in the current machines that use oil, but is non polluting.

[-] ___@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I create a projector and sensor in one lens to view the world in my image. I then grant my projectors the ability to run film reels I create. I keep the ability to punch holes to myself so that I don’t lose track of the reels I’ve made myself. I then allow my projectors to generate film off my original template, but they can’t make punched film. I then use attention and inattention to measure trustworthiness and use it to understand why parts of me misbehave when turned into projectors.

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Time to create my own planet without humanity

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m inspecting some guns and ammo just in case, basic elements and valuable materials. I’m making a lot of gold bars randomly appearing in select places that I find fit. I’m buying a lot of raw wood and selling a bunch of “handcrafted” wood items, burning the wood in my furnace. All electronic items I have become duplicates of real top notch stuff. Will try touching the earth to see if I can actually analyse the whole planet, and making the 2 extra earths needed to sustain us.

Ukraine will find itself with a ton more ammo, and I’m finding myself ready to kill anyone who tries to stop me, by getting a bunch of blueprints for guns

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

I'd make so much free weed

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