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Lecture 06: Cognitive Technologies, Offloading, and Dependence Lecture 06: Cognitive Technologies, Offloading, and Dependence
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From ethical foundations to cognitive outsourcing
Outsourcing functions is an ordinary cultural practice
From biological functions to cognitive functions
Cognitive technologies and cognitive artifacts
Enhancement alone is insufficient
Why people offload: demand and metacognition
How assistance can become dependence
Three levels of offloading
What generative AI can take over
Outsourcing is not automatically bad
Socrates, writing, and the appearance of intelligence
Writing, search, and generative AI: the rest of the slide sequence
Evidence about generative AI
Cognitive sedentarism, debt, and sustainability
Extension rather than outsourcing?
From cognitive resources to markets
Attention markets as the comparison case
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