AGI will be the biggest lever ever on human willfulness, and enable individual people to have more impact than ever before, not less.
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Cognitive offloading is a strategic delegation that costs nothing. Cognitive surrender is something different; an uncritical abdication of reasoning itself. And there is something about AI, about its allure and potency, that could make surrender far more widespread.
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