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Hello Internet

H.I. #52: 20,000 Years of Torment

Hello Internet

CGP Grey

Education

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2015

⏱️ 125 minutes

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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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