Think about this. Today, answers arrive faster than they used to, but, and in a curious reversal, they don’t always stay with us as easily. Artificial intelligence is usually framed as this story of acceleration. Intelligence gets faster and better. In this context, AI—and eventually artificial general intelligence—represents an amplification of human cognition. Well, sorta. That framing misses a subtle, potentially more consequential shift already underway. The most important change introduced by advanced AI may not be how intelligent our systems become, but the conditions under which intelligence now operates. Here's my thesis: Across human history, thinking was shaped by limits. Information was incomplete, and mistakes carried real consequences. These were not inconveniences to be engineered away. They were the pressures that formed judgment.

Human cognition didn't evolve as........

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