This is the paradox of knowledge acquisition in the age of AI: we may think we don’t need to work to memorize and amass basic skills, or build up a storehouse of fundamental knowledge—after all, this is what the AI is good at. Foundational skills, always tedious to learn, seem to be obsolete. And they might be, if there was a shortcut to being an expert. But the path to expertise requires a grounding in facts. Learning any skill and mastering any domain requires rote memorization, careful skills building, and purposeful practice, and the AI (and future generations of AI) will undoubtedly be
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