dlthomas comments on Spend Money on Ergonomics - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Kevin 23 December 2011 06:40AM

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Comment author: dlthomas 24 December 2011 03:23:48AM 0 points [-]

It doesn't work like that. Typing does not take conscious thought - it is overlapped with my thinking. Speeding up my typing even tenfold would not significantly speed up my output.

Comment author: shokwave 24 December 2011 03:35:14AM *  1 point [-]

If your typing speed increased tenfold, you would go from "generally thought/compute bound" to "always thought/compute bound".

Comment author: dlthomas 24 December 2011 05:27:26PM 0 points [-]

Except when bound by something unrelated. My point is that the gains are minimal, and putting my optimization effort there is ridiculous from a speed perspective - that's not how you do optimization, if you want to do it well. If there are actually large RSI gains to be had, that's another matter.