If you wanna get better at this, avoid questions you don't genuinely care about. Ask what you wish people would ask you. Look for weirdness, implied assumptions, or omissions & ask precise follow-ups. Chase the intersection between your curiosity & their enjoyment in the telling
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When catching up with people I like to ask more specific questions than just What’s new? Questions like What’s something interesting you learned recently? What’s been on your mind a lot lately? Any entertainment that’s made you change your perspective or make you think?
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I love these questions!
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Chess software has an "opening book", a database of stock openings, e.g. Queen's Gambit, Ruy Lopez. If you play chess vs a computer it just picks the next move based on whichever opening you wound up falling into, i.e. whichever randomly-picked rut fits the moves played so far.
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Only after the opening from the book is played through, does the software actually start "thinking" about its further moves. Prior to that it's entirely rote responses to a well-known situation.
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How does one do it?
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If it is a useful answer, and if it comes from cache, it means you or someone else has asked it before even if virtually. Not sure why it would matter if the response is from cache or not. If there is a temporal dependence, they would not use cache anyway.
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I think it’s because your cache may not have been updated recently, and reworking ideas consciously can help fix that?
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It's too bad people don't come with an in-built dependency:purge-local-repository option
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this was a really great tweet and didn’t really need any of the follow ups from dudes trying come up with an “answer”
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