And eventually, that is how they declare, "I understand what bitcoin is!" Just literally from the same stimulation 🙄

Personally, I find it absurd and does not allow you to properly absorb the information you read.

just the usual tiktok cancer, i do listen to podcasts at 1.5 speed tho and notice anything less feels slow

Like anything else, skills improve with practice, it apply to reading to. There are various methodologies that help people not only read faster but also comprehend better what one assimilates. I don’t see as a lose of skills, instead an evolution, as we are overwhelmed by contents we need to assimilate and filter more and more every day, that why we can now talk faster, read faster and exchange information… faster!

There is a method to this madness I once took a course called Evelyn Woods Reading Dynamics. In the course you train yourself to read MUCH more than one word at a time. You take in large chunks of material for each eye movement. You can also read in criss-cross across a page and take in the material. You have to learn to focus on where your fingers move across the page and maintain that focus for whatever you read. It is much like scanning when doing Vipassna meditation. You scan with your minds focus.

I learned several methods of glancing through texts even as a kid, that is natural for stuff that you don't respect, and especially where you're merely looking for things like confirming if it matches some big picture you're very well aware of.

All MSM text is a good, current example.

Then of course text that I really respect and want to understand are read at times where I can totally focus, reading every word from cover to cover, that has not changed since I was maybe ~13.

Watching videos at insane speeds? Now that is simply degen insanity, trying to get a number of stress induced, medical conditions haha!