enfeeblement
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Some researchers worried about AI safety also cite enfeeblement as a risk, a “WALL-E” future in which humans gradually cede control to machines and eventually become unable to define, or even understand, our destiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Overstretch — the enfeeblement that comes with confusing ends and means — allows enemies to apply leverage: small maneuvers that have big consequences.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2018
“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
Dementia, de-men′shi-a, n. general mental enfeeblement, with loss of memory, reason, feeling, and will: often the consequence of acute mania.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Therefore a complete abolition of our symbols can meet with assent as little as an enfeeblement of them can be desired.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
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