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Zero trust homework you say. When I was a young boy, our school tried to ban us from using calculators. It was clearly beneficial for everyone in the short run
by molszanski 4y ago
Zero trust homework you say. When I was a young boy, our school tried to ban us from using calculators.
It was clearly beneficial for everyone in the short run and kinda pointless in the long run.
I think we are facing a similar problem. We are trying to stop calculators
- tibanne 4y agoThis, homework graders should assume this tool is a utility.
- nonfamous 4y ago> kinda pointless in the long run Are you claiming that you and the other students derived no long-term benefit at all from learning how to perform arithmetic without a calculator? I would claim that there is a long-term benefit to learning the fundamentals of mathematics.
- molszanski 4y agoI am not sure that I've derived long term benefit from some of those parts. If you wake me up at 3 AM and ask the sqrt of 196 I will say 14 and instantly fall back asleep. But it is there any value in that? Don't get me wrong I love mathematics and I am sure that knowing the principles and fundamentals is beneficial. At some point we have to decide what is essential and what is superfluous. And I think that tools like GPT will put us in a position where we will have to make a lot of decisions very soon.