> Giving 10 month old children permanent crutches may harm the development of walking, but since the crutches make unassisted walking obsolete, maybe it wasn't

> Giving 10 month old children permanent crutches may harm the development of walking, but since the crutches make unassisted walking obsolete, maybe it wasn't worth it anyway? LLMs are a language calculator, yes, but don't share much with their analog. Natural language isn't a translation from input to output, it's a manifestation of thought. If deaf children not taught sign language suffer from non-language learning disabilities, it's not a far stretch to say failing to practice quality writing will have a similar effect. But even with direct translation, if a school "translated" Shakespeare to a lower reading level to account for the class's lower literacy, it may still affect their development. If you had ChatGPT do every exercise in CS, you wouldn't have learned much from just the explanations.