In the 2000s, using internet search engines such as Yahoo, AltaVista, and then Google was a novelty, and some people would say, “Oh, but you looked it up on the internet, huh?”
Discussion
Yes, and I think you are part of a kind of global early adapter cohort (because of high competency + moral compass) working through the shame of AI augmentation and toward acceptance, toward the ego-death of morally equal partnership.
What we are doing is radical and trans-human. How could the danger for dystopian outcomes not be equal to the potential for evolution?