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"Cognitive offloading" may well be the words that doom the human race to our Idiocrasy future
The words aren't what doom us, the phenomenon they describe is. Without the words, we remain in ignorance, which compounds with the thoughtlessness.
Conversely, putting words to it gives the mind something to work on.
“Cognitive offloading” == "lobotomy"
🍆💨 uuh mmm yeah!
It's cognitive too, right?