I would also argue, that most school system forbid the usage of a calculator the first couple of years (at least that's how it was Germany a few decades ago). The same with writing per hand. You can spell check by looking the word up and then manually correcting it.
replyBoth require manual "labor" which leads to learning.
And calculators took decades to become widespread. So we could learn of their side effects before they became mainstream.
replyAlso to note. Calculators merely solve intermediary steps. LLMs are increasingly designed to do a one shot full blown work. Longer context, deep thinking, agentic loops.
No. These tools are very good at creating illusion of learning, without any learning. When you watch them do stuff, you think, yeah I got this.
Once they are gone, you realize all your supposed skill is gone too. Getting a skill requires deliberate practice. You can use AI for that, but just using AI is not that.
replyWhy no? It sounds like you agree with the person you replied to
replyThere's an old Latin proverb "Scribere bis legere", which translates to "writing is reading twice".
replyIn practice, what this means is that you can read some subject many times, but you would still struggle to reproduce the content by yourself. That is why, when learning, it is not sufficient to just read the material several times.