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Re:Ask HN: Parents who control their kids' education, when d... by vunderba on Sunday December 15, 2024 @01:42PM (#42425110)
Be wary of introducing the usage of LLMs at an age where instead the development of critical reasoning should be encouraged. LLMs aren't necessarily inherently bad, but they are SEDUCTIVE and over time it may become very easy to immediately reach for an LLM the moment you have a problem instead of taking some time to quietly ponder on your own.

Reasoning and problem solving is a CRAFT, and if it's not practiced it will atrophy.

Let's not fall into the trap of "LLMs are just a tool like a calculator". An LLM is like a calculator where you can just say, "Here's a math problem please solve it for me."

Re:Ask HN: Parents who control their kids' education, when d... by bloomingkales on Sunday December 15, 2024 @04:51PM (#42426234)
Well, introducing them to the LLM before the world requires correct answers of them may be their most prolific years with the technology.
Re:Ask HN: Parents who control their kids' education, when d... by ErikBjare on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:19AM (#42428754)
People said the same thing to me about computers when growing up, so this has never been a particularly convincing argument to me.