For me it's basically Pascal's Wager for the existence of telepathy. Doesn't hurt to try, and if I did somehow get inducted into the society of mind readers it probably would be pretty cool.
I frequently talk to the future historian-tourists who are simulating me in order to get a sense of what life was like in the early 21st century pre-AI era.
See guys you use this "twitter" thing to talk to people, it was great