Gradual disempowerment at the scale of one user (opens in new tab)

Epistemic status: Personal observation plus a speculative mechanism. I am fairly confident that repeated successful delegation reinforces further delegation. I am much less confident that this produces meaningful long-term disempowerment rather than ordinary, beneficial cognitive offloading.A few weeks ago I stood on a corner near the office, tired, and asked my phone where to eat. It named a place two streets over. I went, the food was good, I walked home. Nothing about that is strange. What...