If all the parts of this hold true, then person knows me well enough to know how important it would be to me and to the world to change my worldview. If they’re not already telling me without payment, I can conclude that it wouldn’t have much practical impact and be something like “The Earth is a Simulation but we don’t know anything about how it works beyond physics or who made it, but the proof is convincing.” Given that, I would probably pay a small amount of curiosity but not more.
If all the parts of this hold true, then person knows me well enough to know how important it would be to me and to the world to change my worldview. If they’re not already telling me without payment, I can conclude that it wouldn’t have much practical impact and be something like “The Earth is a Simulation but we don’t know anything about how it works beyond physics or who made it, but the proof is convincing.” Given that, I would probably pay a small amount of curiosity but not more.
Sharing the information might have a cost for the other person that lead to it not being shared without payment.
There’s also the element that you take information a lot more seriously when you paid money for it.