In a conversation on *The Joe Rogan Experience*, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas argued that in an era of abundant AI-generated answers, the scarce resource is the question. He described an MIT biology classroom where students are graded on the quality of questions they pose to Perplexity, not on recalling answers, stating, “As long as we keep rewarding people for having answers instead of asking interesting questions, it’s going to be a difficult change.” Srinivas predicted individuals will soon own “refrigerator-sized AI boxes running local, open-source models,” breaking free from centralized big tech control. He traced his conviction to the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, which he said describes weapon systems mapping onto modern military technology. The conversation also addressed the erosion of trust in AI-generated content, dangers of algorithmic social media for children, and why recursive self-improving AI will hit a wall of legacy systems and regulatory capture. For investors, implications stretch from cloud infrastructure and chip design to identifying companies building tools that supercharge curiosity versus those monetizing distraction.