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Re:AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse – Daren Acemoglu by ahmed-fathi on Friday March 13, 2026 @05:37PM (#47370296)
When you struggle through a hard problem, you get two things: the answer, and a slightly sharper mind. AI gives you the first and skips the second. That's fine once. Scaled across an entire generation of knowledge workers, over a decade that's the collapse Acemoglu is worried about. We're not just outsourcing tasks. We're outsourcing the friction that makes people grow.

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