{"id":244502,"date":"2026-09-25T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-world-is-transformed-by-asking-questions"},"modified":"2026-09-25T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T14:03:49","slug":"the-world-is-transformed-by-asking-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-world-is-transformed-by-asking-questions","title":{"rendered":"The World is Transformed by Asking Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-world-is-transformed-by-asking-questions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, I wrote that the moment we stop having questions is the moment we become stupid robots.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years later, machines hand out answers faster than we can read them. Which makes me wonder whether I was describing the robots, or us.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the uncomfortable part: answers have always been cheap. Politics, religion, and philosophy have given them away for millennia, and each came with an expiry date.<\/p>\n<p>So what actually moves the world forward? And what happens to a civilization that outsources its thinking to #AI and quietly forgets how to doubt?<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, I also proposed a Turing Test for #ArtificialIntelligence years before ChatGPT existed, and I think it holds up even better now. It\u2019s not the one you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n<p>Voltaire, Nietzsche, Einstein, Mark Twain, and a certain Greek sage all show up to argue the case for #CriticalThinking over comfortable certainty.<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning: it won\u2019t give you answers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-world-is-transformed-by-asking-questions\">Continue reading \u201cThe World is Transformed by Asking Questions\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2013, I wrote that the moment we stop having questions is the moment we become stupid robots. Thirteen years later, machines hand out answers faster than we can read them. Which makes me wonder whether I was describing the robots, or us. Here\u2019s the uncomfortable part: answers have always been cheap. Politics, religion, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}