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I disagree with the grandparent, but I think your reason does not make sense. Good manners and success are orthogonal by design.

Also, does anyone else feel like people on Hackernews too often leave comments that deliberately go against the general consensus in a weak attempt to get up votes from fringe users?

When I ask myself what curiosity leads to, the first thing that pops into my head is the 80s commercial for The National Enquirer:

"Inquiring minds want to know!"

Which probably has the lowest correlation to entrepreneurial success as anything else. Curiosity about business or how the world works is different from curiosity about gossip. Gossip is unactionable to any positive outcome.

What about curiosity about an unsolved riddle/puzzle?

What is success if not the sole telos of your every minute and interaction?