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What would you be doing if you had N times more time per day?
A piece of terminology I want to coin now, to summarize a phrase I've been using a lot recently:
That's a K-x priority.
As in, "Writing this post on group rationality is a 3x priority.". That means:
If I had 3x as much time, like I could do 3 days of work per day, one of the things I'd actually get to would be writing this post.
Maybe it's confusing because 3x sounds like it's more important, not less. IDK. Could say "3x time priority" for a bit more clarity.
Time is not, in terms of experience, uniform. Therefore even with extra time, priorities can vary. People tend to have 5 hours of peak productivity a day - this doesn't mean they couldn't be generally more productive with additional off-peak hours, but it does mean that priories vary depending on what 'kind' of hour we're hypothesizing.
For example, folding clothes and putting them away I can do off-peak. However, I don't like driving my car too late at night - even though I prefer the lack of traffic - because I don't like driving with diminished alertness. As such, my driving habits and how I structure my day may not change that much.
You may find that with more off-peak hours my top priorities during peak hours wouldn't change, but my off-peak and lower priorities would.
Basically I'm meaning to talk about if I had X many Mega-Time-Turners, where each MTT sends me back a full day, but after I use one I can't interact with the world anymore that day. In other words, I get a bunch of extra serial time, and the world doesn't go by faster (but no actual time travel abilities, e.g. no info about the future). It's similar to the world going X times slower or whatever, except that I can easily engage in normal activities like real-time convos. So I get X times as many peak hours.
Yeah I want to use Time-Turner, but it's confusing because 1 TT = 6 hours, not 1 day. I guess it could be fine to just say "that's a 5 Time-Turner problem" and have it be vaguely understood that you mean something like +6 working hours rather than just +6 hours.