I don't claim I know the *right* way to use AI for curiosity, but so far I discovered two modes of asking questions: 1. Persistent Truth Seeking -- asking for data, summary, reports, deep research, concept expansion, assumption validation, thought experiments, reproducing results etc. 2. Spontaneous Curiosity Quenching -- asking for explanations why certain things are certain ways, what does X do, would idea X and Y react. ---- Staying in Mode 2 too long tend to be intellectually neutral and occasionally negative, or worse, making you an asshole who knows it all. I have been asking myself before talking to AI: is this question Mode 1 or Mode 2. For Mode 2, I'd write the question down, or at least put it in my cognitive back-burner for a minute, before pressing enter. It seems to keep my mind way less cluttered since I don't need to spend all the attention to the answers -- 99% of them a high-frequency noise in the journey we call life.