[retskrad]

Reading text is a recent phenomenon and the brain doesn't have hardware acceleration. I'm not surprised that less and less people read long form text. Becoming an intermediate reader is exhausting when you didn’t grow up with books. After 500 hours, I can only navigate titles like The Selfish Gene with middling comprehension. Black text on white background feels flat and dopamine free, yet the grind itself becomes the reward, and social media’s quick hits lose their appeal.

[chrisweekly]

Your comment is very well-written, which is usually a sign of someone highly literate and well-read. I'm very curious about your story as an "intermediate reader" with "500 hours" of reading under your belt. TIA for any further details you're willing to share.

[edavison1]

I don't know if you're alluding to it and I just missed the sarcasm but their comment is at least partially computer generated. Last sentence is classic bot talk coded.

[debesyla]

I wonder how can one even calculate time spent reading in hours. Most of reading is, after all, thinking (and reminiscing) about what you read...

I think maybe OP was using some obscure meme format. Or if it was genuine I am also interested how did the 500 hours came upon.

[Der_Einzige]

It's trivial to get an LLM to write a comment of this kind of quality. Good writing means nothing anymore.

[sandy_coyote]

Despite this comment's dubiety, this is a good point. Text communication is only about 8,000 years old IIRC, which is quite recent in human development.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

You can knock off a few millennia there, and if you want to include most of the population, barely a century or two.

Literacy was needed to read the Bible and operate machinery, and now we have videos for that. Only (some of) the video makers need to read, so they can raid the libraries for material.

[kjkjadksj]

Now ask how old working a sedentary 9-5 is