CognitiveRewilding
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The Real AI Threat Isn’t Extinction — It’s Erosion
Humans and Generative AI: The Paleo-Digital Paradox What if the real AI risk isn’t extinction. It’s erosion. Not robots overthrowing us — but slowly sanding down the cognitive edges that made us human in the first place. The Architecture of Mismatch For most of history, technology outsourced muscle. Hand axes amplified force. Steam engines amplified…
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The Paleo-Digital Paradox: An Evolutionary Mismatch in the Age of Artificial Agents
The Paleo-Digital Paradox: An Evolutionary Mismatch in the Age of Artificial Agents 1. Introduction: The Architecture of Mismatch When I step back and trace the arc of human tools—from the Acheulean hand axe to the steam engine—I see a clear throughline: we externalized physical effort. We built artifacts that amplified kinetic energy and reduced metabolic…
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