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It's not that simple, it's not just about the specific things they miss out on learning, they're not developing the framework for how to learn, and fundamentally they're not developing a positive relationship with curiosity, learning, and problem solving as valuable and desirable skills.

We know that behavioral and cognitive patterns develop at a very young age, soon become ingrained, and usually affect the rest of our lives in one way or another. Kids who are never disciplined grow up to be entitled spoiled brats, so what do you think will happen to kids who habitually delegate any work that requires even modest cognitive effort to a black box?

I don't buy the argument that this is just another technical development that makes things easier and more efficient. The WWW made information easier to find than searching for books in a library and reading them, but fundamentally you still have to read the material, understand it, and apply it to your work. LLMs can just finish students' assignments for them and they don't even have to read it or spend spend any energy thinking about it.