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Nick Szabo·2025-10-05 01:53
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Calculators impede the learning of rote arithmetic. So what? News flash: if the calculator or the spreadsheet or the LLM can do it better or faster, people in the real world aren't going to pay you to do it without these aides. Students need to learn -- and colleges need to teach -- the stuff computers can't do well yet. If you can't figure out what that is and teach it, then go get honest jobs instead of teaching automatable slop. ...