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Or calculators.

• Helicalrunner 7mo ago
  Stochastic calculators that is
• vrganj 7mo ago
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  • nemomarx 7mo ago
    Not addictive, but calculators can prevent you from learning Math from the foundations, so we keep them away from students until later courses. Pretty easy comparison to AI? Only allow people who have passed some milestone without using it to have access to it.
    • vrganj 7mo ago
      That's how it worked at my school and I think that made sense. But I think AI's effect on our brain is much more insidious.
  • scotty79 7mo ago
    Whenever I need to deal with numbers I'm reaching for a calculator. And I feel very uncomfortable when one is beyond my reach. That's at least a dependency.
  • palmotea 7mo ago
    > I don't think calculators are addictive and bad for us? I think they are. I kind of think they should make a calculator that will refuse to do certain calculations, like anything on the multiplication table, addition/subtraction where both terms are not longer than 3 digits, etc.
• socphoenix 7mo ago
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  • ceejayoz 7mo ago
    Not until you get to floating point math, at least.