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Because Hume drew correct conclusions from very little information (relative to what it took for Science to catch up), and I want to learn how to do that.
Good answer.
Qiaochu_Yuan has a point, but Hume was conspicuously right about so many things that almost everyone around him was wrong about, I think there might indeed be some "Humeness" having an effect going on there. Maybe: unusual good rationality. Or maybe he was a plant from our simulators.
What about Epicurus.