It would help if Youtube made it possible to play videos at maybe 1.4x or 2x their regular speed. It's still not as fast as reading, but less slow. I yearn for the day when all of Youtube's videos use the HTML5 video tag, and we can do this at the browser level.
Or listen to the interview while you're playing Super Mario World romhacks (or whatever). That's my overly-specific method for enjoying interview videos.
It would help if Youtube made it possible to play videos at maybe 1.4x or 2x their regular speed. It's still not as fast as reading, but less slow. I yearn for the day when all of Youtube's videos use the HTML5 video tag, and we can do this at the browser level.
I am confused (cf Grice) by that statement, because it's all true about the particular video: if you are in the beta, then it uses the video tag and offers (at least to me) a control to switch to 2x. Even if it is flv, you could download the video and run it in a standalone player. A standalone p...
(Sorry this is mostly a link instead of a post, but I think it will interesting to the FAI folks here)
I helped arrange this interview with Peter Norvig:
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/b8aln/peter_norvig_answers_your_questions_ask_me/
I think the answer to the AGI question 4 is telling, but judge for yourself. (BTW, the 'components' Peter referred to are probabilistic relational learning and hierarchical modeling. He singled these two in his singularity summit talk)