#did this poke my reading comp autism too hard

[givemerainbowfire]

Ok but like. I think forcibly is the operative word there. Calculators became so ubiquitous because of how useful it is to do math on the fly. Math is a critical part of how we and our technology operate.

I don't think stealing art and sucking the soul from every human activity possible is something very useful. Convenient, maybe. But convenience alone does not make something a thing that everyone wants. Or something everyone SHOULD want.

I get that the implication calculators aren't as much a part of every day life as they are can tick you off pretty easy but like. Idk man I feel like it's decently easy reading comprehension to realize that post isn't... whatever you thought it was? Honestly I don't really know if you're pro or anti calculator in this scenario but like. The post is about how "AI" is bad and comparisons to calculators aren't relevant. That's the message and I don't think the great calculator invasion is relevant bc they are just straight up not harmful.

sorry I know I’m being extremely annoying right now but the claim that the electronic calculator ‘did not forcibly pervade every aspect of our lives’ is so boldly and confidently wrong it’s impressive. the ability to automate the act of quantification (ie what an electronic calculator does) is probably as central to modern commerce and society as like, the transistor or the lightbulb. a world where excel spreadsheets do not exist is a fundamentally alien one to most people on planet earth. all geospatial software is built on the ability to do math on the fly. can you imagine the world today without google maps? can you even begin to comprehend a society not dominated by numbers? even these examples undersell how fundamental automated calculations are because this technology did in fact pervade every aspect of life. the fact that you think a calculator is simply a plastic doohickey you were taught to use in grade nine math is maliciously literal. like these arguments are so nakedly and openly anti-intellectual that I would say it makes it clear that no one should take you seriously, but posting this kind of mind-numbing slop is one of the easiest ways to do numbers on tumblr right now, which is something you also wouldn’t be able to do without the invention of an electronic calculator