Autoamputation and Antique Maps

We can't choose between Dune or Matrix timelines

I know people—both online and in real life—who insist they’ll never use AI. In the grand scope of our civilizational path, I’m not sure it makes any difference. Still, it seems intuitively worthwhile to maintain a few experimental human control groups—populations not yet transformed by AI integration.

You could imagine them on a spectrum: from the isolat…