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🗓️ 30 November 2015
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Grey and Brady discuss: subvocalization, Liberian county flags, Brady worries about who is driving him and the proliferation of screens in cars, Brady fingers ballots and then brings up coincidences and dreams, Brady tries to convince himself to buy an iPad Pro, what cars should people drive, before finishing off with how artificial intelligence will kill us all. (If we're lucky.)
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Instapaper (for the speedreading thing mentioned)
Liberian County flags redesigned
The Hello Internet flag referendum
Grey's 'fetish' podcast discussion of the iPad Pro
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
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0:00.0 | I tell you what, it is one of the great myths of Hello Internet and CGP-Grey folklore |
0:06.2 | that you are competent and have technical ability. |
0:11.2 | The last show certainly sparked some conversation in the Reddit. |
0:17.4 | I couldn't help but notice that it was a show that reached a thousand comments. |
0:21.9 | People talking about when server's mem is appropriate. |
0:26.5 | People talking about sub vocalization with many of mine's blown lots and lots of discussion from the last show. |
0:33.6 | There was, there was and I'm sure we'll come to a few of the other things in follow up. |
0:37.7 | But on this sub vocalization thing, a lot of people seemed really interested in it. |
0:43.3 | And it is very interesting. But I don't feel like I have anything else to say. What about you? |
0:47.7 | The thing that I left out of the conversation last time, which people were picking up on a little bit in the subreddit, |
0:53.6 | was I came across sub vocalization in the context of, |
1:00.0 | this is not a thing that you should do if you are a well-developed reader. |
1:06.4 | That this is a hindrance. This is something that you do when you first learn to read, when you are a child. |
1:13.0 | But that by the time you become a man, you should be able to look at words and understand them |
1:18.4 | without hearing a little voice in your head reading the words to yourself. |
1:23.6 | There was a lot of comments on that point. |
1:26.8 | But my only follow up is when I came across this, I thought, oh, okay, well this is very interesting. |
1:32.4 | Let me see if I can get rid of this sub vocalization. |
1:36.6 | And there's a whole bunch of things that you're supposed to do. |
1:39.4 | And my experience with them has been a total failure. |
1:46.0 | Like there are exercises that you're supposed to do where you're listening to like a recording of a voice |
1:52.2 | that's counting up in numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and trying to read and trying to do that. |
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