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Ask HN: How much faster can we think vs. speak? (Neuralink related)
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A friend of mine noted that this is an assumption behind the project, but there doesn't seem to be much evidence behind how much faster we can think vs speak.
- twobyfour 10y agoA lot of our highest-bandwidth conceptual thinking is non-verbal, which also throws a wrench in things. I don't know that the advantage of the neuralink idea would necessarily be speed, though, so much as not having to either speak aloud (especially in a public place) or occupy your eyes and hands in order to convert your ideas to text.
- meric 10y agoA lot of the times by the time the thought appears in our minds, it has already been pre-thought by our subconscious. First impressions, for example. E.g. When we read the neural-linked menu of a restaurant, maybe by accessing the part of our brain that stores smell-related memories, there's no need to even show some of the items; whereas without neurallink we'd have spent some minutes figuring out what the food item might taste like by analogy.