The CEO of one of my companies clients literally said they couldn't do their job without Claude when we told him his PC was slowing down to the point of being unusable due to the desktop app and suggested he not use it

Higher cognitive skills are a nightmare from which they managed to awake.

It is the prophecy foretold by our entire 20th/21st century concept of Zombies.

Its just that the vector for mind obliteration is primarily digital, not biological or supernatural.

It is the endpoint result of our laziness and preference for convenience.

When the rat in the skinner box gets a button wired to its brain that releases dopamine, the rat just hits the button untill it dehydrates/starves to death.