Let’s say you won a contest and got to use the holodeck for a week. What would you do? I’d have a Skyrim adventure and then a Ringworld adventure, choose your own adventure type story, hard boiled detective story with a beautiful girl Friday, go visit that female hospital/castle from Monty Python’s Holy Grail for purely informational purposes, and then be a cop in a Martian Colony. Then if I have time be a crew member in a Star Trek like exploration or do a Sliders type adventure
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Full honesty, I'd probably sell the ticket to the highest bidder.
But if I were to use it, while I would engage in some degeneracy in all likelihood, the temptation would be too present, I'd mostly use it for practical purposes: I craft stuff, but I mostly use cheap materials because the cost of failure is too rough for me. Using high-end stuff and testing how it works out, and able to go "holodeck, simulate one week passing, one year passing, one decade passing" and seeing how it works out as a completed product would be fantastic.
If at all possible, I'd also see if it's one of those REALLY advanced holodecks and try to overclock my own brain, make one real-world second be like a standard "feels like" minute or hour in the deck, for more usage.