• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    If your kid becomes dependent on you to continue wiping his ass well into his 30s, thats a failure of the parent. We are raising a generation of students who are dependent on machine statistics, not reason, to decide whats correct and right. God help us all.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      You’re on to something here. I raised my kids to use technology as a tool, not as a babysitter. They didn’t have smartphones with SIMs until after they’d learned to drive. But they knew how to count in binary on their fingers by the time they were three. They’re really good at recognizing when something was LLM-generated, and only use LLMs when it’s required.

      I think there’s quite a few kids like them out there, but they aren’t the ones you hear about.

      • chunes@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        God I can only imagine how bored they were being taught to count in Kindergarten.

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          11 hours ago

          They had fun with that; kept inventing new ways to count, and then taught their classmates with various levels of success.

          Thankfully, their teachers got on board and didn’t see it as being disruptive.