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Asking for an answer shows you one possibility — testing a hypothesis forces you to rule out the wrong ones first.
Cora Mitchell
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July 14, 2026
Facing a complex, highly uncertain problem, most people ask Claude 'tell me what the answer is' — this phrasing itself presumes there's a correct answer waiting to be found. But plenty of real-world problems don't work that way at all — there's no single right answer, only a few hypotheses that might hold up, and what actually needs to happen isn't solving for an answer, it's testing which...