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Old 07-08-2025, 14:19   #686
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Re: Reform UK's chronicles

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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh View Post
My we get diverted here. Trouble is calculators could also remove the need to think about what you were doing and why. Looking at a slide rule you could see a log scale and remember that adding logs is equivalent to multiplication.
Yeah, sort of my point in a way.

Kids leaving school/university whatever with qualifications gained by the use of fingers and not the brain. Heck you don't even need to learn English because whatever you now write with has a program to check and correct errors.

Already many people are asking A1 questions to save looking for an answer themselves, and, more worryingly, believing what AI tells them . . and then those people get to vote - probably for whoever the AI suggested
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