alt Hacker NewsI watch news (and everything else) on YouTube at 2x speed to keep the information density high enough to be worthwhile. Once you get used to it, regular media becomes less tolerable because everyone is talking too slow.
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anal_reactor • yesterday at 6:51 AM
I often watch YouTube at 1.5x speed and then during work meetings my brain starts looking for the speed button.
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einpoklum • yesterday at 9:45 AM
The 2x speed will only keep your brain preoccupied enough not to notice the relevant information is missing or made very shallow... getting the same slop in half the time won't solve the problem.
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