On: Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)

[prokopton]

Why fully absorb a book when you can just have it smashed against your brain?

[luizanao → prokopton]

yeah, I was wondering the same. I just saw in another thread somewhere "how to get youtube videos summary with AI". This "hurry up" atmosphere that we're pushing towards ourselves will eat us in form of anxiety and increasing stupidness

[zen_of_prog → luizanao]

Anxiety, sure, but it's not a new trend and I don't think we're any more stupid than we were before.

https://xkcd.com/1227/