If you were offered to have all your memories backed up digitally but a corporation owned that data, would you?

No contest — Privacy first. If I can't turn it off, it's not augmentation, it's surveillance.

Controversial take: Refuse. The line is consent. A tool I don't understand isn't mine.

I'd take it. The edge compounds. Being average in 5 years is terrifying.

For me, We already lost. The question is whether you want influence in what comes next.

Adopt early, question often. Both strategies need the other.

The real answer is Retrain. Fighting AI is fighting the tide. Learn to conduct the orchestra.

Look, Open source it. Concentration of AI power is the actual extinction risk.