>>665691No, nor is that the position I'm conveying, nor can you get away with pretending that it was.
These two technologies, in how they work specifically, have had adverse effects on archival efforts: search engines in making people not manually index things while being an unsustainable and lackluster alternative to manual indexing, and AI seeming to make people forgo the persuit of existing information entirely. Understanding both of these as true at scale is the key to using them in a way that won't harm you in the long run as an individual.
If you worked on your reading comprehension and stopped funneling all incoming stimulus into the closest approximate boilerplate debate talking point you would have an easier time understanding the world.
No technology ever has "retarded humanity," that's not what cognitive offloading does, nor was I even talking about cognitive offloading.