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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by liability on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:43PM (#20881734)
> . If you can process content much faster than it was meant to be played, it doesn't mean you're learning much faster than you could, it means the novel information density is low.

I 'read' your comment using TTS at 3x. What does that say about the information density of your comment?

(Little to nothing. TTS at that speed is still marginally slower that I normally read with my eyes. Human speech is generally much slower than is necessary to be understood.)

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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by knzhou on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @06:40PM (#20882090)
That's a good point, 3x speaking speed is reading speed, so there's nothing unusual about using it on comments largely intended to be read. That makes perfect sense.

What doesn't make sense to me is consuming things that have a _set_ speed, such as video/TV or lectures, at a dramatically faster speed.

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