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The Way Forward

FalloutShelter

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1. I agree 100%... but

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2026, 08:33 AM

Wednesday

I am coming from a less hopeful place.
The age of critical thinking is over as we charge headlong into the abyss of handing over our mental agency to AI.

As a professional artist and author, In see this decline accelerating every day, and it is both depressing and terrifying.

Enshitification is coming for our children’s brains.

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