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Epistemic status: Personal observation plus a speculative mechanism. I am fairly confident that repeated successful delegation reinforces further delegation. I am much less confident that this produces meaningful long-term disempowerment rather than ordinary, beneficial cognitive offloading. A few weeks ago I stood on a corner near the office, tired, and...

The strange thing about neutering a dog is that the person deciding is also the person who benefits. A guardian weighs whether to remove a healthy animal’s reproductive organs, and sitting quietly on one side of the scale is the guardian’s own life: the litters they will not have to...