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		yoyohello13 54 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The threat is comfortable drift toward not underst... This is why I don’t understand the calculator analogy. Letting beginners use LLMs is like if we gave kids calculators in 1st grade and told Timmy he never needs to learn 2 + 2. That’s not how education works today.

Wowfunhappy 54 days ago [–]

I think this is exactly why calculators are a great analogy, and a hint toward how we should probably treat LLMs.

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