Yonatan Zunger (zunger) wrote,
Yonatan Zunger
zunger

An odd poll...

Inspired by kaidevis's recent poll, a question I once asked a friend of mine when we were silghtly inebriated:

Poll #112380
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 10

What is a question whose answer you've always wanted to know?

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Now... say you could have the answer to that question revealed to you, but the revelation would be transient: After a moment's epiphany, you would only remember having once known the answer, but not the answer itself. Would you want this?

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Yes
5(50.0%)
No
5(50.0%)

Why, or why not?

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moof

March 13 2003, 19:35:07 UTC 12 years ago

I'm sneaky enough that I'm happy to ask a question where there's the implicit metaquestion: "Is [this question] answerable?"

I suppose the only time I specifically wouldn't want to know the answer to a question is if I thought that getting the answer was 'cheating' somehow. Mysteries and games are much less fun if you know exactly how things will unfold and turn out - unless the path itself remains a mystery.