So well said. Wrote about this: “What happens when the common man/woman can no longer afford the AI tools they’ve become addicted to?
Withdrawal. And in this case, withdrawal will feel like cognitive amputation.
It will feel, in short, like Flowers for Algernon or Common People in reverse: a society that handed out genius on a subscription plan—only to revoke it when the trial ends.
We trained the machines to think.
Then we let them think for us.
When the tab comes due, we may find we’ve forgotten how to pick up the pen.”
So well said. Wrote about this: “What happens when the common man/woman can no longer afford the AI tools they’ve become addicted to?
Withdrawal. And in this case, withdrawal will feel like cognitive amputation.
It will feel, in short, like Flowers for Algernon or Common People in reverse: a society that handed out genius on a subscription plan—only to revoke it when the trial ends.
We trained the machines to think.
Then we let them think for us.
When the tab comes due, we may find we’ve forgotten how to pick up the pen.”
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