Do you ever worry that you're training yourself to find actual human interaction unbearably slow?

I already find human interaction to be unbearably slow. Apparently I talk incomprehensibly fast

Wait until Musk's neuralink is common.

I talk fast, and type exceptionally fast. I wonder how insanely fast a neuralink would be, without the limits of flesh, rendering concepts to a data stream of some sort.

Then transmitting that to another person. I'm sure there will be a new language, but... imagine conveying 10 minutes of talk in 12 seconds.

How would you ever communicate normally again?

There’s probably a hard limit to the amount of information you can take in a day or between sleeps. This is based on personal experience where I can’t focus on assigned readings if I read too much of “hobby” reading.

Mayhap. However, each individual has a differing capability here. And as well, each has a differing capability, with different aspects of their brain.

For example, the path for "reading" is something like "vision -> deciphering squiggly lines/patterns -> words -> comprehension -> interpretation -> contextualization -> on and on."

And as you mention, there are many other processes in parallel, such as focus/attention, etc.

You could get tired at any of these points, yet the neuralink may bypass many of these steps! So one may literally be able to absorb greater info, without fatigue.

Of course, this is a far greater cause for concern than some realise, for example...

Right now, each of the above steps (and more, I'm just spewing a few examples as a 'path'), have built in, evolutionary derived 'filtering'. Your visual cortex, for example, filters and processes info. Deciphering 'random marks on paper' into patterns, and then words, with meaning? More filtering and processing.

All of our senses are filtered, processed, managed by portions of the brain, prior to being interpreted by our multi-layered, multi-faceted mind. What I fear is that a neuralink like device may bypass much of that filtering.

That processes to allow critical thought are even more complex than we think, and may reside in specific areas of the brain. I know that I walk away with differing levels of comprehension from something read, spoken, or watched.

I suspect that 'interpreting information' is highly source dependent, and that we learn to interpret, to 'tune' the same sight/sound/vision as the same event.

I guess my point here is simple ; bypass parts of the mind when inputting data, and the outcome is uncertain.

Imagine reading news articles, or watching a video, with some of your interpretive / critical thinking bypassed?

(I'm sure someone will point out "No, part $x of the brain does that job!". Sorry, I say NO, that's my whole point. Our brains are not a machine, with a CPU/GPU/NIC or what not. Just look at the insane complexity of the visual cortex.)

I am not that individual, but I listen on 1.5x-2x speed as well for podcasts/audiobooks. I was always a fast reader/listener, and I think it's because I loved listening and reading.

Human interaction is kind of slow yeah, but it gives you time to think.

hah, not OP but I actually do worry about this. Watching stuff like GN at 1x and it feels like they're talking in slow motion. I worry that it leads me to talk faster than I should and I try to make sure I'm not coming off as too caffeinated in person.

Do you watch it to extract info? If so it makes sense. But to get the experience I sync with the original speed and if it’s too boring I skip alotogether rather than ramping up the speed.

This is interesting! What sort of shows are you watching, and why is it important to you that you get through them quickly?

How does one set that on netflix?