The ultimate question

\@aravsrinivas via Twitter on Jul 24, 2023

The ultimate question is what is the question. Asking the right question is hard. Even framing a question is hard. Hence why at perplexity, we don’t just let you have a chat UI. But actually try to minimize the level of thought needed to ask fresh or follow up questions.

\@mlevchin via Twitter on Jul 24, 2023

In a post-AI world perhaps the most important skill will be knowing how to ask a great question, generalized to knowing how to think through exactly what you want [to know.]

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Every so often I have such a hard time phrasing what I’m trying to look for. [ . . . ] there have probably been times where I have spent two hours trying to look through, because I don’t know how to phrase what I’m trying to do.

a data engineer research participant, quoted in my dissertation: 4. Extending searching > Query formulation.