• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, it’s like a calculator. Don’t get reliant on it. Know why it gives an answer, be able to get to the answer yourself, but appreciate the time saving of the calculator when you can verify that it was correct much faster than getting to the answer yourself.

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      1 hour ago

      This isn’t such a simple question.

      If you think about it that way, the atomic bomb is also a kind of tool, but not everyone is allowed to use it…

      If a tool starts thinking for you, it’s clearly a different kind of tool than most known tools. Different tools have different safety procedures. :)

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      The art of using a digital calculator is being able to put in a problem that would take you a couple of minutes to solve, get the calculator’s answer in a couple of seconds, AND be able to spot-check the reasonable-ness of the answer in a couple of seconds more. Blind trust is ridiculously risky, cutting your speed by half to move from 99% correct to 99.99% correct is well worth the extra time and effort invested.