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In high school, a holocaust survivor came to speak at an assembly. One of my classmates asked, "If you could change anything about your experience, what would it be?" He basically said he wished his whole family weren't murdered. I was flabbergasted. That's something you ask a motivational speaker or a CEO, not someone who endured genocide.
A CX PM attended one of my teams inspect and adapt sessions where we were showing a machine learning model to help determine based on weather patterns, water levels and usage information to identify the most likely places leakages on the clean water network may hit during adverse weather events. 
He asked how we can ensure that our machine learning model wouldn't learn too much and try to take over the rest of the platform. 
Trying to explain to someone that a machine can only learn from the data it has access to and all that it could do was predict outcomes based on data when that person thinks we could create a fucking terminator was terrifying, hillarious and hugely frustrating. 
So yes I agree, this man asking how we could ensure we didn't accidently start skynet was a stupid question. >

This is gold >

Well of course there are. The reason educators say this is because if students avoid asking a question because they fear they will be negatively judged for doing so, they will end up just not understanding the material, which helps neither the student nor the teacher. >

This guy gets it. Since asking stupid questions is the initial antidote to ignorance and stupidity, you encourage people to ask anything, especially the not-to-bright (yet) people.
It's a useful fiction. >

here's a stupid question:
"How much more stupid would it have been if I had not asked this question?" >

That question is not stupid. It perfectly encompasses the fallacy in OPs opinion >

ok, if the question is not stupid then what's your answer to it? >

Sometimes complex questions don't have a simple answer >

When I was in miidle school I was thrown out of my English class for laughing at a question posed by another student. We were discussing Wilfred Owen' poem "Dulce et decorum est", and in particular the line "as in a green sea I saw him drowning". This referred to the chlorine gas used in WWI, but the other student asked if Wilfred was wearing green tinted sunglasses. The English teacher was absolutely furious with me. I'm not quite sure what I learned that day. >

Veteran librarian here! Oh, yes, there are definitely many stupid questions. We were just trained to pretend they were all legit and meaningful. > >

A question itself isnt stupid.  Its just a question.  A person asking a question can be stupid.  It takes a stupid person to ask the same question over and over if its already been answered. >

I hate that one person in a class! The teachers done, shut up! >

I think that exact same thing, every time I read the No stupid questions Subreddit >

See if somone is willing to learn i dont see it as stupid. There  was a point in your life you didnt know how to move your fingers, there was a point in your life where you fed yourself by the fist full and you get food everywhere. Then you learned. Once there was a time u didnt know how to Google somthing or how to look it up. How many questions did u have to ask before you asked the right question of how to Google somthing? >

Yes, thank you especially those on Quora who ask dumb things that can easily be answered on search engines. But when you point this out, you're labelled a bully. >

I don’t like when someone asks something on a forum and they’re snarkily reminded that Google exists, because someone else reading it might not have thought of the question. Plus, you often get someone who’s knowledgeable and can provide a much more in-depth answer than you’d get just by googling. People say that the full gamut of human knowledge is right at our fingertips, but it’s not true. You oftentimes  only get surface-level answers with online “research.”
But yeah. People definitely ask some dumb questions. I remember a science teacher saying that scientists had never actually managed to achieve a temperature of absolute zero, ie the complete cessation of any thermal energy. This girl just could not understand how they couldn’t just add an ice cube.