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> 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
by 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.