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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)

162 points · 75 comments · evakhoury

  1. dzink · · focus · HN ↗
    Intelligence and the mental load it requires has a budget - in both real and artificial forms. In real - people are bombarded with tools and requirements and when the teams behind those don’t consider mental load required, that spends down the budget. Thus people give up fighting all battles and are forced to prioritize their resources. Denial of service attack on the brain. AI models running out of context will do the same and get lazy. Sadly any bad actor private or government knows this and uses it as a tool to fight intelligent resistance to its plans.
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