Recently, I started rejecting general questions. General questions are often wrong. Yes, you can ask wrong questions, and it's worse than giving bad answers.
It's especially evident today with questions about AI's future, the future of jobs, or other simplistic questions. Wrong questions lead to harmful actions and consequences.
For example, people often ask, "Will AI take my job?" Answering "yes" can lead to negative outcomes. Another bad question might be, "Are immigrants bad?" While some might be, asking such questions is harmful.
So, how to ask good questions? The more you know about a topic, the better the questions you can ask. No wonder the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42; the question itself is crucial.
What should you ask about AI's future? Ask specifics like, "What is your job exactly?" "Do you like the repetitive parts?" "What do you love or hate about it?" Instead of "When will AI replace humanity?" ask about the energy limits of AI or what’s missing in cognitive reasoning research.
Wrong questions, like which programming language is better or faster, are as senseless as asking which human is faster. It depends—speed of thinking, speaking, or running?
I've stopped accepting wrong questions because they encourage shallow thinking. People started asking more shallow questions then ever before. We must stretch ourselves to think deeply, compete with AI, and make decisions independently. Therefore I also decided to answer "I dont' know" more often, than before, for bad questions, and as a question asker, motivate myself, to think more about what questions to ask.
There's a more religious aspect. If you are not precise, you are untruthful and being truthful is key to being a good person..
Remember - the truth is always precise; untruths are general statements. It's where "The devil is in the details" is quite the opposite - the truth, god, and wisdom is out there.