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cognition

3 essays on this topic.

Papers
  1. Skills Are Collapsed Recursion

    Humans handle about three layers of abstraction before working memory fills up. Skills, rules, and frameworks exist to flatten the fourth layer into something you can hold.

  2. Why AI Assistants Make Us Dumber (And What Governance Should Do About It)

    The cognitive offloading problem is real. The governance response mostly isn't. There's a specific mechanism at work, and it has a specific fix.

  3. What and Why Beat How

    When implementation becomes automated, human intelligence reallocates to purpose and strategy. The cognitive hierarchy inverts.