[SomeoneOnTheWeb]

Actually the world is more or less ending because of that. People lack more and more critical thinking skills because they aren't taught about that in school.

Sure multiplying 3-digit numbers is not really useful in everyday's life, but the important part is not the knowledge itself, it's the capacity to think and solve problems.

[aianus]

You can easily measure the capacity to think and solve problems with paper-and-pencil exams every week or two not hours of daily busywork.

[ben_w]

If such tests actually measured the capacity to think and solve problems.

Thing is, LLMs beat humans on the words of such tests (if not the pencil part), and indeed basically all stabdardised tests at every level.