I’m not sure speed alone, by itself, is a solution. If you speed down a game by, say, 70% there would probably be no difference than if you sped it down by 90%, since there’s a limit to what the character can do in a given second. Mario, for instance, once you jump, there’s not much to do until he actually lands.
Suppose the same would happen if we had the capability to speed down time in our actual lives. Sure you could dodge bullets and win F1 races from time to time, but the actual day-to-day tasks, that take the majority of our time wouldn’t be improved much. If you need to eat lunch, eating it in an optimal way won’t give you much advantage in comparison to regular people that don’t take the fork to their mouths following a perfect parabola.
And if I needed to do research, finish writing a book, do computer based work for a company, etc… I could probably arrange things to do this much faster and make much more money.
Being able to eat while parkouring to your next destination and using a laptop at the same time might. And choosing optimally nutritious food. Even if you did eat with a fork, you wouldn’t bring the fork in a parabola, you’d jerk it a centimeter up to fling it towards the mouth, then bring it back down to do the same to the next bite while the previous is still in transit.
Standardized IQ tests have specific times for completion for a reason. With more time (and the conscientiousness to actually use it) everyone would do better at them. So a speed increase is an IQ increase.
I think of my mental processing as a kind of information metabolism, with an equivalent of hunger: boredom. So I expect a smarter/faster thinker would need more input to process, much like a more muscular body needs more food. That, at the very least, should cause a smarter/faster thinker to interact with its environment substantially different from a standard rate one.
I’m not sure speed alone, by itself, is a solution. If you speed down a game by, say, 70% there would probably be no difference than if you sped it down by 90%, since there’s a limit to what the character can do in a given second. Mario, for instance, once you jump, there’s not much to do until he actually lands.
Suppose the same would happen if we had the capability to speed down time in our actual lives. Sure you could dodge bullets and win F1 races from time to time, but the actual day-to-day tasks, that take the majority of our time wouldn’t be improved much. If you need to eat lunch, eating it in an optimal way won’t give you much advantage in comparison to regular people that don’t take the fork to their mouths following a perfect parabola.
Mario games let you change momentum while jumping, to compensate for the lack of fine control on your initial speed. This actually does matter a lot in speed runs. For example, Mario 64 speedruns rely heavily on a super fast backwards long jump that starts with switching directions in the air.
A speed run of real life wouldn’t start with you eating lunch really fast, it would start with you sprinting to a computer.
And if I needed to do research, finish writing a book, do computer based work for a company, etc… I could probably arrange things to do this much faster and make much more money.
Being able to eat while parkouring to your next destination and using a laptop at the same time might. And choosing optimally nutritious food. Even if you did eat with a fork, you wouldn’t bring the fork in a parabola, you’d jerk it a centimeter up to fling it towards the mouth, then bring it back down to do the same to the next bite while the previous is still in transit.
Not really relevant to real life, but there can be large differences.
Standardized IQ tests have specific times for completion for a reason. With more time (and the conscientiousness to actually use it) everyone would do better at them. So a speed increase is an IQ increase.
I think of my mental processing as a kind of information metabolism, with an equivalent of hunger: boredom. So I expect a smarter/faster thinker would need more input to process, much like a more muscular body needs more food. That, at the very least, should cause a smarter/faster thinker to interact with its environment substantially different from a standard rate one.