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Comment Re: When in doubt, get the leg irons... (Score 1) 46

Schools across the country used to teach you how to read, write, drive, cook, and even shoot. Yes, in California, too. By the time I got to school we were only shooting arrows, though. I was able to take classes in cooking, woodworking, plastics, and electronics in public school, but you could feel the Reagan pinch for sure. The only instrument my elementary school could offer me was a dented trombone.

Comment We're waiting (Score 1) 78

"A kid growing up today will never be smarter than AI, but he or she will also never have understood a world where every product and service that they interact with is not really smart and really capable and really helpful,"

OK, so show us these really smart AI things. When I have to describe in 3 different ways to the AI bot that the Amazon order is wrong, and something a human would have picked up instantly....that does not sound 'really smart' to me.

Comment Re: Calculators (Score 1) 46

Ok, but I'm partially innumerate. I simply can't do longer sums in my head because I can't keep track of the digits. It may be related to my almost total aphantasia. So I'm never going to be able to do that shit rapidly without a calculator.

A far bigger problem is that people don't learn to think critically so they don't ask the necessary questions. It doesn't matter if they could do the math in their head if they don't understand why.

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