The short version
An interactive experiment built on Shaw and Nave's Tri-System Theory: what happens to your own judgment when you hand more of the thinking to a machine. You play a downhill run where assistance quietly ramps up, then get asked to steer alone again. Delegation without architecture erodes the exact skill you delegated.
- Offloading decisions to AI degrades the underlying skill unless you deliberately keep practice loops in place.
- Intuition, deliberation, and machine delegation are three different systems. Teams need explicit rules for when each one drives.
- Design AI systems so humans stay calibrated, not just informed.
Cognitive
Surrender
You're skiing downhill through 8 runs. At each fork, choose how to navigate: surrender to the AI, verify its suggestion, figure it out yourself, or go with your gut.
Surrendering is instant — no time added. But every surrender makes your steering heavier and the snow thicker. You'll feel it on the very next run.
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