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 player also lets you get past the 2x offered by youtube, my chipmunking software (quicktime) doesn't work well past that. I think there are better algorithms, though. (ETA: almost all youtube videos have mp4 downloads, even if they aren't available as html5. I don't actually have a flv codec.)
I used to multitask (and still do with the news in the morning), but I find I get a lot more out of the talk if I pay attention. And running it fast makes that a lot easier, since it's all or nothing.
(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)