[6gvONxR4sf7o]

You’re getting a lot of answers about how you don’t need calc to use things other people have made with calc. This turns the answer into “so that you can avoid weird mysticism about how the world works.”

If you don’t know how other people made the things you use, then 1) you’re pigeonholed into being totally dependent on them, and 2) you’re likely to get all sorts of weird beliefs about how the stuff you depend on works (like crystal healing/homeopathy/etc in the bio realm).

[softwarebeware]

Totally! Reminds me of Foundation by Isaac Asimov where scientists turn into the equivalent of priests in some cultures.