That’s an interesting idea. Where can I read more about it? Any specific Pinker book?
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I’ve started watching TV Shows at 2X speed. This has been incredible:
I can watch twice as much TV in the same amount of time.
Lots of TV shows which are very interesting, but are slow (e.g. Breaking Bad, Sopranos) become MUCH funner to watch.
I started doing this a few months ago. It started when I realized that I already listened to Audiobooks at 2X-3X, and that TV Shows are basically the same thing.
Some tips:
You should use the VLC player, which lets you 2X while preserving proper audio.
In VLC, you can hit the “+” button to go to 1.5X, then again to go to 2X, 3X, 4X etc.
You can start with watching things at 1.5X speed, then go to 2X when you feel confident.
At higher speeds, you should watch with subtitles, which makes things much easier to follow.
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I started with audiobooks and lectures as well. Since I’m a big fan of watching TV/Movies, applying the same thing to this area has allowed me to double the amount of consumption, while not really diminishing my enjoyment of the shows that I watch (and, in some cases, enhancing it if the show is slow but otherwise good).
Here’s why I think this is something most people can do:
I am personally a “native-level” English speaker, having spent 6 years of my childhood in English-speaking countries. I am now in a non-English-speaking country though.
A friend of mine who is also doing this is not a native English speaker, and while his English is quite good, it is clearly not native-speaking level. However, he also manages to watch almost all shows at least at 1.5X speed.
Of course YMMV, but I would encourage people to at least try this out and see if it hurts their enjoyment of shows or not.
Not really, in the sense that everything is half the time so the timing between things is still intact.
Are there some “dramatic sequences” in which I miss part of the intention of the directors/etc.? Yes, I’m sure there are. But for at least a large portion of the shows I watch, most of the important stuff is in the dialogue anyway.
Disclaimer: I’m probably a less visual person than most, which means I don’t pay as much attention to the visual aesthetics of shows as others do. Also—some sequences even I don’t watch at 2X, mostly action sequences and the like.
Very interesting idea, hadn’t thought of thought. You can technically slow down shows in VLC by pressing the—key, it slows to 0.67X speed I believe.
Please let us know what you find, I may try it out myself for practicing Spanish.
Excellent!
I hope to see many Israeli LW’ers there.
Is there any way to update the main post?
How does this lecture series compare with reading a good econ textbook (e.g. Greg Mankiw’s “Principle of Economics”)?
Great! Waiting to see everyone!
BTW, anyone have any ideas for an interesting Rump Session that I could give? (Relevant domains: Business/Programming/Life Hacking?).
My first thought was that cartoon where a human is listing things only a human can do, with all the things computers can already do falling to the floor.
I tried to search for the image, then found out that I originally saw it in lukeprog’s Intelligence Explosion book. So I guess you know about it.
Still, it’s a great image: http://intelligenceexplosion.com/2011/superstition-in-retreat/
Seconded. It’s not clear what’s happening at first, so let me reiterate—it’s all shot with one camera, without added CGI work or anything. If you were in the room, you’d see the same things.
Btw, I had no idea Video Art was a term. Anything else you’d recommend from this genre?
Can’t wait to see everyone there!
Excellent!
Waiting to see everyone there.
Excellent, can’t wait to see everyone there!
I just donated $100, in large part because of the detailed writeup and because of the many people writing here how much they donated. So thanks everyone!
Answered. A day late—hope it’s still counted, only saw this now.
So, I think the bigger problem is not the main/discussion split. It’s that, when coming to the site, one doesn’t even understand that this is a forum!
I don’t know if this is by design, but I was a LessWrong reader for more than a year (!) before I ventured over to the discussion section, and this was largely because I didn’t see the link. I realised people were posting things because of the changing articles on the home page, but the same posts kept appearing so I figured there wasn’t that much material.
It was only after meeting a few fellow LW’ers at a meetup that I realised there was a real community.
I don’t know if I’m typical. It’s possible I just wasn’t really looking, it’s possible I didn’t care enough. But I am a pretty technologically savvy user (programmer for 18 years), and I’ve been around HN/Stack Overflow/Reddit for a long time, so if it isn’t clear to me that there is a whole world of discussion here, then I’m sure it’s not clear to most people. If this is by design, cool. If not, then there’s a big problem here.
Hard to say if I’m atypical (Typical Mind Fallacy and all). But I doub tit.
Again, I wasn’t really looking. But the fact that this is a thriving forum certainly didn’t jump out at me form random visits to the site, including the main page.
Is there any reason LW doesn’t just have a Reddit/HN style homepage?
(I’m new here. This is probably my first comment).
How did the meetup end up going? I’m very interested in meeting fellow LW’ers in Israel.