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Would you Rather Have More Figurative time or more Literal Time?
Munkus Beaver
You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
Simple question: Would you rather have a super power that gave you more literal time or more figurative time?
Figurative time: Doing menial tasks, traveling, etc. Anything that is rote, that you only put up with because you have to, that is necessary but annoying. This won't make your entire work day feel faster, just meetings or particular tasks with your job that you hate doing. The flip side is that while everything will fly by from your perspective, they will all take longer to do. It could take you six hours to do a four hour trip, but you wouldn't notice it at all, for example.
Conversely, having more literal time is exactly what it says on the tin. You get things done, and you get them done fast. You can make a 4 hour trip in 3 hours, you can blaze through meetings, etc. etc. The flipside here is that time dilatation is in full effect and those 3 hours might feel like 6 or more. Time will slow to a crawl from your perspective, but you will have far more actual time in the day.
Figurative time: Doing menial tasks, traveling, etc. Anything that is rote, that you only put up with because you have to, that is necessary but annoying. This won't make your entire work day feel faster, just meetings or particular tasks with your job that you hate doing. The flip side is that while everything will fly by from your perspective, they will all take longer to do. It could take you six hours to do a four hour trip, but you wouldn't notice it at all, for example.
Conversely, having more literal time is exactly what it says on the tin. You get things done, and you get them done fast. You can make a 4 hour trip in 3 hours, you can blaze through meetings, etc. etc. The flipside here is that time dilatation is in full effect and those 3 hours might feel like 6 or more. Time will slow to a crawl from your perspective, but you will have far more actual time in the day.
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Would you Rather Have More Figurative time or more Literal Time? 28 votes
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If so, does that mean I can just go to sleep for what feels like 8 hours to me, but is actually 5 minutes for everyone else?
If I do this, does my aging remain at the rate of the rest of the world, or do I age according to my perceived time?
You get more literal time. So it will feel longer to fall asleep but you'd wake up earlier without the negative side effects.
It's a choice between feeling like you have more time, but actually not vs actually having more time, but feeling like you don't.
More literal thyme, please
I'm making soup
So I choose whichever of the two options lets me do that
Me, I want to upload and duplicate my mind to absorb nearly all art and knowledge in one collective lifetime, kick start the Trans-Temporal Machine God, and construct the apparatus to cause the artificial Deep Crunch. You know, the usual.
So...figurative I guess?
When I had to go into an office, I would always, always prefer an hour-long bus ride where I could read or play games or whatever to a half-hour drive in traffic. How the time feels is so much more important to me than how much actually passes.
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Yep, and that's why I now take the train to visit parents rather than drive through California freeway traffic. No stress, play with my phone, close my eyes for a bit, it's wonderful.
This only works on stuff that you do not want to be doing in some capacity. Busywork, travel, sitting in church, etc. If you are taking a test or something else that is specifically time gated, then you gain/lose the literal time during a commute while the test itself would feel longer/shorter based on what you selected.
It's not a monkey's paw situation, it's not trying to fuck you up.
"More literal time" sounds like the gift of an actual, benevolent God: more accomplishments in your life, more experiences, more opportunities to learn patience, fewer ambitions left unrealized because you had to handle cleaning the gutters or whatever.
Choice seems clear to me.
this is just how I live anyway so I may as well push on in that direction.
like, people expect me to be awake 8, 10, 12 fucking hours? 12 hours of life in a row? no thanks.
Like, more figurative time basically guarantees you're always late for things and slow and ineffective at performing tasks while giving you less time to do fun stuff (even if the periods between doing fun stuff feels shorter). More literal time basically turns existing menial tasks into a mental prison sentence in exchange for a comparatively minor increase in actual time to do fun stuff, although the side effect of being very effective at boring work stuff might make it somewhat better.
It feels like the current balance without these is generally better?
It's difficult to imagine being on my death bed and thinking "Damn I wish I spent more time sitting in traffic"
I've never once been in traffic and experienced a feeling other than "boredom" or "anger," I will TiVo through that shit and not regret it for a second
I dunno, when I was really going through a depressed period in my life I would have loved to have been punished like that (but not in a fun, sexy way). I knew in a bone deep way that I was an awful person and deserved to suffer
On the other hand, I don't care if menial tasks last forever.
The choice is clear.
Hell, fuck, it would mean I could actually hold a job again.
If I could do 10 hours worth of work in 10 minutes I'd be the world's most saught after self employed specialist in fuckin any one of hundreds of time sensitive fields.
I could do a week's worth of billable hours before lunchtime on Monday and that's without having to spend a week completing a law degree.
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Even assuming the dilation is that strong, the example given was that you could get four hours of stuff done in three hours that feels like six hours. 10 hours of work done in ten minutes that feels like doing 20 hours straight (if it's just doubling) or that feels like 600 hours (if it's proportional to the dilation) is either burnout inducing or super hell.
or Literal Tim?
Next poll: which mythical Greek hero's curse seems like the least bullshit to have to deal with?
that's what i'm reading right?
It's not really intended that way as a toggle, but if you didn't want the effects to happen they wouldn't happen.
I'm actually a little surprised that more people want literal time than figurative time.
It's not 10 hours of work in ten minutes, you are still doing things in a reasonable amount of time. It's just faster metaphorically/literally for you. Little bits, here and there. And again, if there was something that could not logically happen (i.e. having to wait for something to bake) you would gain/lose the time elsewhere.
What I'm specifically getting at is would you like for it to feel like you have more time, but don't, or would you rather have more time, but feel like you have less. That's the crux of this.