The 'Ask Better Questions' Discourse Returns, This Time Attributed to Musk

A viral thread repackaged Elon Musk's observation that the most important skill in the AI era is knowing what questions to ask — a familiar thesis that keeps finding new audiences.

A thread from @r0ck3t23 reframed an Elon Musk quote — "The biggest thing is, what questions do we not know to ask?" — into a broader argument about human value in a post-AI world. The thesis: as AI commoditizes answers, the ability to formulate novel, high-leverage questions becomes the defining human skill.

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