You don't need to know how to do the work without the tool. Knowing how to add two numbers together is not the point. Knowing what numbers to add and why is what you need. Just computing the answer hasn't been an interesting skill in my whole lifetime.
> You don't need to know how to do the work without the tool. Knowing how to add two numbers together is not the point.
Would you really raise your kids to not know how to add 2 numbers on their own?
I wouldn't even raise my kids to not know how to wash their clothes without a washing machine.
Wouldn't want them to be useless on their own, to be dependent on tools to take care of them.
It's fine to use tools to augment what you're able to do, but it'd be a kind of failure of their elders / of their environment to not teach them how to live on their own, independent, or at least dependent on as few things as possible. Tools aren't necessarily always going to be available in their lives. Having options for their life's necessities is good.
It also helps to know when the job's done well. Just because clothes come out of the washing machine doesn't necessarily mean they're clean.
If we're talking:
> Why bother learning to retain any information when AI knows everything and can recall it in a split second.
Kind of scary to think of adults that need AI to do their thinking for them, with the adults not knowing how to verify anything and just trust the output.
I mean, my kids can both do mental math because it's something they sort of absorbed along the way. But yeah I don't super value it as something to focus on. I've never done laundry without a washing machine nor would I know how to teach someone how. Though I'm sure I could look it up.
