Let's fall into the dystopian rabbit hole and look, not avert our eyes. We like to believe that working with AI makes us better thinkers. The interaction feels good, ideas come together, and language improves. So far, so good. And it's easy to read that as growth. But beneath that satisfaction sits an imbalance that most people never see.

AI occupies a "cognitive dimension" we don’t. It handles scale, speed, and breadth with a kind of casual authority that has nothing to do with human potential or limitation. And I've gone as far as calling this anti-intelligence. Yet we keep calling this relationship “augmentation,” as though its magnitude naturally aligns with our computational strengths. In reality, the gains we experience are tiny adjustments within our fixed biological constraints. I don't think we’re transforming, but improving around the edges of a system that cannot expand simply because a larger one sits alongside it. The colossus that sits beside us is something rather different yet........

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