If you have a machine that can answer most any question, then what is left? Creative problem formulation?

Governance Public Utilities for @zksync at @thezknation

Q&A is that big a part of your life?

Plus we’ve always had such a machine. It just used to give mostly wrong answers like “god did it”

Now it gives slightly less wrong answers

Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Yeah and most will be wrong as they’ve always been

We overrate answers. They rarely satisfy when we find them. Good questions are infinite games, they’re inexhaustible.

And anyway, what we want more than answers is solutions to problems we don’t know we had until we stumble across them.

Humans live complete lives. Just not very correct ones. Gödel smirks. Occasionally we stumble across things that expand our minds and make us feel incomplete for a while. Then we fill the blanks with bullshit and move on.

Before Amazon etc my parents had to “plan shopping” — more than now anyways — now they just say “oh we need this” and it shows up in 0-5 business days. 

Feels like the new machine is basically doing something similar. it won’t be “god did it” but “all answers available for 20 dollars per month” type of thing?