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To: J.B.C. who wrote (719)1/15/2026 10:15:04 AM
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Anyone who has taken a formal speedreading course knows that much of your time is spent on eye movement. Speed reading courses emphasize two related skills: having a larger focus area so that you don't move your eyes as much, and learning to absorb phrases and word combinations similar to how you don't read words one letter at a time. The latter can only come with a lot of reading and subject matter familiarity.

The real bottleneck is in our comprehension. As a species, we have astonishingly low information bandwidth. Very very low baud rate.

When I read complex research, it can take me minutes per sentence to understand the text, if I understand it at all. The problem is not understanding the words in the sentence; it takes time to digest the concept.

In contrast, that video was describing a low cognitive load concept for which it primes the viewer slowly before speeding up. So I am disputing the claim that you will have faster comprehension with practice. All that practice will do for you is to enable you to drop the filler words and pay attention to what is salient. Which is not very different than what LLMs do.
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