EniScien's Bio thread

Even expert speed readers do it, they just do it a bit faster than untrained people do. We can check this because that inner voice sends faint communication signals to the vocal cords, as a residue of your internal monolog, and those signals can be measured objectively.

I've heard about that and that looked like an evidence that you are able to untrain only things which are introspectively visible, not that it is somewhat important. Again, what about deaf-mute, what do they subvocalize? And "a bit faster"? 5000 phonemes/min, ~100/s, more looks like 1 phoneme per neuron activation. I doubt you can properly understand speech on 1000wpm.

But in general, when I started, I failed to find existing discourse and decided that it will be quicker to just check. And than it just looked too clear than I actually can at least think just visually and much, much faster than speak.

I'll check the link though. (It's existence explains why not more people checking this)

PS Edit: okay, I've read and I didn't find anything new in this article. I will try to read link on "evidence"

And also just to check, will you also say that it's impossible for ordinary human to read text and speak at the same time?

PPS Edit: and no, second article also hasn't had any evidence. But still thanks, I've found some techniques of speed reading I've never heard before, only thought about by myself, so probably my ideas aren't new even if it's not something like math. And people converge in such topics, and end up having almost fully overlapping ideas, and I'm not exception.

And the reason why such ideas aren't widely used probably isn't that no one discovered that, but because people are sceptical. Like I was. 1000wpm? 20000wpm? Looks like fake for credulous.

But now I'm less sceptical even about such results because I was wrongly sceptical about such things like training of imagination, attention, intelligence, memory and willpower. And was clearly wrong. Btw, what you will say about these things?

Also I was sceptical about thinking multiple thoughts in parallel, but that was mostly because of Feynman's and EY's claim, and now I'm just more doubt them, after I understood it's easily possible.

Do someone know something like "synesthesia" browser extension for better legibility? It should paint black-and-white letters into colored, probably saving intensity.

But it depends which speed do you read? If it's 800-1000wpm (4000-5000 letter/min), then I maybe wrong.

Some apriori reasoning like: pronoucing goes a consequences, one token at time, but brain is 200Hz is consequence, brain is better in being parallel with all these 80M neurons, and also words have meaning as a whole, so most of step by step letters don't even contain meaning.

And next evidence from experience to this apriori reasoning: when I succeed to stop pronouncing I can see and understand three words at a moment. Also I wrote whole shortpost here about my experience with trying to replace usual speech into visual thinking. (you need "visual thinking" section)

IIRC you are wrong, lenses are just different ways to see the page of same topic. They're also used for "version ML programmers", "version for DT professors", "version for usual people". Or for Wikipedia it would be "scientifically precise encyclopedia" and "quickly get useful info about topic for usual person".

Edit: oh, also, as I know, lenses are from tvtropes (caution: addictive memetic hazard)

Very cool. I probably already for two years wondered why to have Arbital as additional site instead of doing it on LW. And that would be very good if now I will be able to read it without bugs and even make edits (easily, by three clicks!). I also like that there are tabs instead of "lenses", I've always thought that "lense" is improper idea if it can show you completely different set of contents.

Also I for a long time thought that it would be good to post Sequences, HPMoR and some other things as wiki pages, they are too crucial for LW to their edits be vetoed as personal blog pages. And also post into them their translations to other languages, so you can read them on LW with all it's functions, in the same place with all the other content (I for a long wasn't on LW because I read Sequences as fb2 translations). And you could add and edit translations in wiki way.

And also probably write one sentence (speaking) names and one paragraph summaries, so you could get quick understanding of Sequences better than "highlights". And probably also figure out which points of sequences are the most important to be convinced in the beginning vs just knowing that it's community opinion.

And probably also find a way to know in advance which point will be more and less obvious for me. Eg Pebble Sorters were completely obvious for me, probably can be checked by Orthogonality Thesis, but Truly Part of You was very unobvious to me and I suspect it's a question of generation. And some points already were in HPMoR, and other people could read planecrash before Sequences or Feynman, GEB, Kahneman.

And just to not forget to say it: I for a long wanted to add spaced repetition reminders for reading posts, otherwise I forget them and forget that I forgot.

(There was some errors, message hadn't sent before now)

Becoming stronger feels like things became lighter. But a lot of things I trying to do are not "just easy"? Also I thought about it more like finding things which you found too hard and gave up. And I am not sure how to just pinpoint easy things, it's like finding details of how you are moving.

(Though I probably should expect that for a lot of people it's actually hard to from the first try read/remember even single time new long words like "cefoperazone" and "ceftazidime" and that wasn't just a trope)

99.9%??? Are you serious? I thought I have a bad memory, but I don't think I will forget more than 70% of what I read THE NEXT DAY. Like, I can remember which tweets and shortforms I've read in the last few days, just trying to remember what I read, not because I found myself in relevant situation.

And that is for random post which I didn't considered important to me like "what to do with AI for a layman?". I remember much better posts which I did considered important, like the one LW about effectively explaining things in the way of "it's like airbnb, but for boats".

I think about it in the way of "which time I can spare if I will find something really important", it's not like now I am going and saying "oh, again I have no idea what to do with my time". It's just that I am not compelled to work, don't have kids etc.

I don't think about it quite that way. Isn't the sense in sharing ideas? You have have ideas, some are more important, and share them is easier than invent and different people find different ideas. So you have a benefit from sharing with each other. So if it was like that I'd expected more like 30K of people showing with great ideas on lesswrong once a week each.

The most useful my ideas to write in details:

• Thinking is the most powerful human ability which differ us from animals
• You can develop any aspect of your brain/thinking/neurons by training
  • You don't need to be restricted by existing ones, you can invent them
• You can develop your thinking and next invent by it better ways to develop thinking
• Introspection is really important, because it's really hard to develop thinking blindly
• Ordinary processes of learning are INCREDIBLY ineffective, you can do better
  • eg, anki, pomodoro timed learning, remembering images, not words
• You train things in imagination
• You can remember things better by imagining what you need to remember in which situation
• Optimisation of internal dialogue and visual thinking
• Moving your attention from mental things instead of fading them for better remembering

TBC

Whole my life I hated reading. Now I have a better understanding why and what to do with that.

I read slow because I am pronouncing things, I pronounce things because I want to have emotions from intonations, I need that because I don't imagine a lot. And as a bonus I am pronouncing things, not just perceiving audibly, so reading for me is an effort, in comparison with listening.

Unfortunately pronouncing also is a very stable habit, it's really hard to not pronounce things. I will try to use rhythms for speed reading.