>From Eliezer S Yudkowsky
>Not necessarily. I know that the limiting speed of my own typing
>is more often thought speed than typing speed - certainly for
>stuff like "Friendly AI", less so for code. I don't really try to
>push my speed all that often - in fact, I'm trying to push it
>right now and it's an interesting experience - I just type at an
>ordinary relaxed rate. Dvorak is certainly much more relaxing if
>that's what you're doing, and it's also possible to push yourself
>without breaking your fingers in half.
I was going to mention earlier that in my case it also has to do
with "I don't often think that fast". I learned to type on a manual
Royal 440.
I took speed reading when I was younger, and soon ran into the
problem with comprehending difficult material. I was at a party one
time (my place) and someone was bragging that he could speed read
anything.... I handed him a copy of R. Buckminster Fuller's
"Synergetics, Volume 1".
I won the bet.
My earlier experiences with speed reading led to one of my favorite
slogans. "Anything that can be speed read, should be....."
Brian
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