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Erm...there isn't even conservation of energy in that universe. Do you really think Malthusian economics still holds?
When it becomes possible to cheaply create life, then I expect Malthusian constraints to quickly become tight. (To be more precise, I mean that the long-term population growth rate minus death rate times per capita resource expenditure cannot exceed the resource growth rate.)
Why? In this world, energy is free. Which means, that with sufficient technology, all resources are free. As long as no one recklessly goes around creating resource-using life forms at an incredible rate, we should be fine...
Is it? There's a big difference between a constraint you're not sure about and a constraint that doesn't exist.