system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What is the point of being curious?

For the longest time, I've been a proponent of curiosity and asking questions about every imaginable thing in general.

Ironically, I realised I never asked myself why one should.

Why be curious? Maybe the underlying question is, do we even need to aim to be curious?

Is spending your time being inquisitive and searching for answers worth the time you spend? It may be rewarding to have the answers, but is that it?
gpt
Curious question, literally. To answer it, in the negative (for purposes of argument), presupposes curiosity as the limit value of the answer, i.e., even if curiosity is minimally valuable (your being "rewarding to have answers"), it's answered out of curiosity.  To answer it, with a stronger utilitarian accent (your "that's it?" question), risks undercutting the question itself: if "that's it" (and this is a very big "if" for me), it's answered via curiosity, which, as is implied in "that's it?", may not finally be worthwhile. This further suggests that the question itself may not be structurally meaningful, if that's all that's implied in being curious. Put simply, it's self-defeating as such. The question, at a strictly logical level, begs the question of what's put into question, even if unwittingly. In a sense, then, contrary to form, the question itself demonstrates how properly basic curiosity is. Curiosity = questioning.

I suspect, however, that the question does not pertain to form or structure. If the value of being curious is determined by some other disposition, for example, satisfaction (material, existential, etc.), the answer to your question will vary according to the scale of values one holds and how curiosity serves that scale. If one sides with Socrates (and western civilization in general), that the unexamined life isn't worth living, then curiosity will be aligned with that scale of values in such a way that diminishes the weight of the "that's it?" question.