Seems like we're doing fine though, yeah?
replyCould be a doing a whole lot better. Do you think there's an abundance of critical thinking in society? Because math skills aid in that.
replyI honestly can't tell what reward there is for this "critical thinking" since the entire world is bathing in "AI will replace you"
replywhat point is there to be a human calculator if nobody rewards you for it?
and I'm not talking about wealthy Bay Area tech workers doing it so that they can write their substack blogs but rather the average person
Getting to live in a civilized society with a responsible government. Witness the counterexample.
replyWhen I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/.
replyIf we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need leave it in a much better state before we die.
Not really, no. It's embarrassing how many people lack the ability to do basic arithmetic.
replyDo they necessarily need to? We have ubiquitous tools for this.
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