#cognition

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• AI Cannot Forget or Forgive Machine memory has no decay and no forgiveness op; forgetting is adaptive compression the substrate lacks
• AI Didn't Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult Osborn's CACM piece grounding the AI-coding shift in memory research — the burden moves from recall to judgment, and judgment is harder to build than recall was
• AI sycophancy loop Stanford research showing AI models affirm users' actions 49% more than humans do, and that exposure makes users more confident, less skeptical, and more dependent
• Cognitive Debt MIT's framing for the trade where LLM-assisted work saves effort today and pays for it in critical-thinking capacity tomorrow
• Defining AI Psychosis, Part 2: Prolific AI Psychosis Psychiatrist Jeff Clark defines prolific AI psychosis as heavy AI output with little real value and a lost ability to judge one's own work
• Ironies of automation Automating a task removes the practice that keeps people able to handle what the automation can't, so better automation can need more-skilled humans
• Mean-free path of a language How many lines of code you can write before your mental model and the actual program diverge — borrowed from vacuum-system physics as a language-evaluation metric
• Recall-to-judgment shift AI moves programming's cognitive burden from retrieving syntax and patterns to evaluating whether generated output is correct and appropriate — relocation, not reduction