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It is exactly like that.

Yes, there are exercise nuts who are exercising like crazy, but the average population is getting weak and obese.

The same with mental muscles.

How many people can do mental calculations in their head nowadays?

What about remembering several phones numbers?

What about simply navigating with map but without GPS? (Or, heaven forbid, just by common sense and observation?)

Properly thinking about hard problems is exhausting. Majority will be glad to offload the hard thinking to an AI 'assistant'. The same way we offloaded computing to calculators, and memory and navigation to phones.

What remains is the easily manipulated lizard brain...



Heck, how many people in this room remember their own phone number?




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