Never mind I found it.
There's a term we used to use in the UK for certain posh new Labour types in the late 90s.
Champagne socialists.
There's an inner critic in Cory's mind, who knows the LLM use is wrong. Hence why he kicked off months ago and tried to justify it with a bad interpretation of Lourdes Masters Tools speech.
The cognitive surrender is as much not wanting to use that part of themselves as letting it waste away.