Measuring research progress by the ability to ask increasingly good questions
RichardMCNgo · x · 2026-08-21
Richard Mcngo proposes that research progress should be measured by the ability to ask increasingly good questions, rather than just giving increasingly good answers. He notes that while this feels cliché, it remains true for a good reason.
More from Research
- AI Economic Indicators: Measuring consumer surplus via willingness to accept — soumitrashukla9 · 2026-08-21
- Research: Robot foundation models are few-shot learners — scaling01 · 2026-08-21
- Skip the LLM judge: a deterministic reward function for comparing RL rollouts — ivan_bezdomny · 2026-08-21
- Arc Institute Launches 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge with $100K Prize — AllThingsApx · 2026-08-21
- Analytical Connectionism Summer School 2026 Announced in Gothenburg — SaxeLab · 2026-08-21
- GitHub CEO shares his cancer case: AI-driven personalized medicine is now viable — garrytan · 2026-08-21