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Drupon 62 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

No, learning math is still a valuable skill. You still learned how addition worked growing up even though calculators existed, right? You learned to read even though screen readers exist?

adrianN 61 days ago [–]

Imo you learn to add not for the skill of adding, but for the skill of understanding and applying algorithms. Adding is just a simple example.

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