Perhaps people are upvoting because of the discussion it might create.
probably they just read the title and thought it was an interesting question so they upvoted
People are tickled by the idea?
Sometimes I wonder if much of HN couldn't be replaced by automatically seeded and periodic threads about topics that commonly generate discussion. Every month, a bot starts the nuclear discussion. Every three months, it's the home farming discussion.
Along with auto posting every article from the blogs which are popular. There’s a bunch of blogs I follow, some I found here, where every post reliably generates discussion.
Just subscribe and post the RSS feed.
You position it as cultural spaced repetition learning.