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HODL

You might be lying more than is healthy for you.

Most people think lying is harmless, just social grease or a shortcut through conflict.

I used to think that too.

But the real damage caused by lying isn’t moral. It’s structural. It’s what it does to your internal model of reality.

To be a convincing liar you have to believe your own stories. And the moment you start believing them, you compromise the part of your mind that knows what’s real. That internal compass, the one that helps you navigate the world and navigate yourself, begins to distort. Hannah Arendt warned that when lies replace truth, our ability to orient ourselves collapses. That’s the real danger.

Lying feels like control, but over time it becomes the opposite. You create a false world, and then that false world starts controlling you.

If you’ve been lying long enough, you’ve already split yourself in two: the part of you that knows the truth and the part of you performing the lie. Carl Jung would say the performer becomes a shadow self you start living inside. And if you inhabit that character long enough, you confuse their desires for your own. Eventually the performance becomes the identity, and your entire life bends around maintaining it.

The prescription is simple, but brutal. Tell the truth again.

But be warned. Truth is expensive. David Foster Wallace said the truth will set you free, but not until it is finished with you.

Telling the truth means killing the false self, and that death is painful because you’ve been identifying with that character for years. You’ve invested in them. You’ve protected them. You’ve let them run your life.

Worse, many of your relationships have bonded not with you, but with the liar, with the persona. And when you kill that persona, people will grieve it. Some will resent you. Some will leave. Some will tell you you’re not yourself anymore without realizing they never actually knew you in the first place.

People love the lie. It’s easier to love. Cleaner. More convenient.

When you start telling the truth, don’t expect applause. Expect resistance. Expect disappointment. Expect people to prefer the mask you wore over the face you’re finally revealing.

But if you stay the course, something else happens.

The world becomes solid again.

Your mind aligns with reality.

Your inner compass recalibrates.

And you stop living as a character in a story you never meant to write.

You come back to yourself.

Be impeccable with your word.

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corndalorian

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Replying to

Kip Ashlynn

I honestly don't trust AI to summarize anything for me. I've experimented with it a bit and when summarizing my own work it often changes things enough that the summary supports an entirely different thesis. When summarizing things like Robert Becker it glosses over what I found most interesting about that work and focused on really basic mainstream things.

I think that's why I do recommend Campbell's AI Guy because it isn't a black box where you put the work to find out what the majority of mediocre thinkers would say about it, rather it's built around his work specifically. So it answers you in a way that Thomas Campbell himself would answer 99.99% of the time (his words).

https://hark.now/view/ZDM0N

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I completely emphasize with your deep skepticism of AI summarization basically I've built hark. now as a side project because all existing Solutions were so bad.

The core issue is that summarizing a book with a common AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Grok, it will just spit out a 5 minute summary for 8 hours of content (typical reading time of an average book), and strip it completely of its style and essence.

What I built with Hark is a different approach.

First we aim for a 12:1 ratio, this means that to summarize 8 hours of reading, the summary is still 45 minute of reading, it's still somewhat of a deep dive and requires effort and commitment to read through.

Secondly it doesn't "dumb down" the content. It aims to faithfully incorporate the user's style, tone, vocabulary into the summary so that you get the feel of the book form, not just substance.

Finally it's designed to maintain the specific details, examples and anecdotes that authors often to highlight their main ideas, and it's usually those little details that really color a book and make stick with us.

I'm telling you all this because I first built hark for myself and I'm personally very satisfied with the result and I'm wanting to share with others (right now it's free and I'm not really in a rush to monitize). Just want to get people's feedback

Here is an example of how a book summarization looks like in hark

Please free to try it out for yourself or tell me a specific book, I'll process it and send you the link.

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_Checkɱate 🔑⚡🌋☢️🛢️

Well there was always going to be leakage as management has to get paid (and healthily I may add).

A lot also never actually bought BTC outside pipe deals to insiders, and a bunch ran these scammy BTC converts with whales (whale can retract their BTC if the stock price doesn't moon).

Question marks at every corner.

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"Well there was always going to be leakage as management has to get paid (and healthily I may add)."

Yes this is the central issue. And I know you would know as I'm sure you were amongst those who, due to your public persona, were offered enticing endorsement deal.

When it gets to that stage when they would be so desperate to perpetuate the mirage at any cost, you know the whole thing has gone upside-down. Time to unwind. Personally I'm glad it bursts now and not later on.

Such pathetic money grabbing.

Good on everyone who just stack pure hard unconfiscatable bitcoin, for the uptenth time, once the market sorts itself out, the stackers will be vindicated.

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I follow 10x more people on Nostr when compared to the number that follows me. I hereby swear to always, come what may, to always maintain that ratio.

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_Checkɱate 🔑⚡🌋☢️🛢️

One of the notable reasons 2025 underperformed is a lot of Bitcoin capital was coaxed into buying expensive Treasury company stocks, which then proceeded to decline by 90% or more, incinerating value.

The firms didn't buy BTC volumes anywhere close to the amount investors gave them.

Stay humble, stack sats, is the wisest meme in Bitcoin, and it comes from the experience of Bitcoiners who have already learned this lesson.

The new shinny thing is there to take your Bitcoin. Everybody is a scammer. The solution, is to stay humble, and stack sats.

The promoters will return.

Ignore them, they want your bitcoin.

Stay humble, stack sats, and focus on your craft and family instead.

Where did all the capital invested go? Did the middlemen really take a 70-90% cut? Disgustingly dishonest but as you clearly outline, what else can we expected.

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jimmysong

Treasury companies are the new GBTC.

This so true. And yet the current context is different. The unavoidable unwind this time round will be be spread around much more. Sure 20% will die instantaneously, another 40% via a slow death into irrelevance. Back in the 2020-2022 era, GBTC was the only way to get synthetic exposure to BTC within Brokerage rails. Today their is an

over abundance of options. The market, as always, overcorrected and over supplied. It's time to prune.

Replying to

calle

bitchat (occupy wall st., 2011)

Historic.

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A Bitcoin Guy

Life is simple but it is not easy.

https://ai-guy.consciousnesshub.org/landing

Hey, nobody said it was going to be easy, all we said was that it was dead stupid simple.

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Kip Ashlynn

Finally finished this behemoth, there are some interesting concepts but nothing that was really new to me. The casual writing style was very hard for me: asides within asides within asides; lots of "humorous" anecdotes without connection to the point; and an utterly random organization structure. I could not even begin to write a summary outline, and I'm left with the impression that he had violent outbursts every time an editor suggested ways to communicate more clearly. Most bizarre was the author's constant contempt and condescending to his reader, as if a hostile dedicated materialist would ever pick this up 🤣

If anyone is interested in this, don't read it. The author has created an "AI Guy" that can explain the concepts in a fraction of the time.

You should have just harked it.

i.e hark.now

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Jim Craddock

Apoptosis is programmed cell death, a natural and controlled process where a cell intentionally self-destructs to remove old or damaged cells. This process is essential for health, development (like forming fingers), and preventing diseases like cancer, where it removes abnormal cells. During apoptosis, the cell shrinks, its contents are packaged into "apoptotic bodies," and it is then safely cleared away by scavenger cells without causing inflammation, unlike the destructive process of necrosis.

In my case, the apoptosis is caused by the reversal of the Na/K pump. This causes the cell to shrink and eventually die, resulting in candidiasis pecked in salts wrapped in a cell membrane.

#RedactedScience

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Wait I thought this was called Autophagy?

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Lyn Alden

Much of life comes down to trying to find the most workable point between two extremes.

We do that for a lot of things at the individual level, the institutional level, and the sovereign level. Even Aristotle wrote about this thousands of years ago with the Golden Mean (e.g. that the virtue of courage is somewhere between the extremes of cowardice and recklessness, and not necessarily right in the middle).

I think one of the hardest ones in today's age is the "tribal ignorance vs analysis paralysis" problem.

On on hand, people are very emotional decision-makers, and then they also are hardwired to form into groups. Agreeing with each other on one thing often then comes with an overlay of other things to form basically a tribal culture around it, as people start to adapt the mannerisms and ideas of those they already partially agree with. This is an effective shortcut in some cases, basically like ancestral/cultural knowledge rather than having to figure out everything from scratch ("this person seems like he's doing well, and he does/thinks these 25 things, so maybe I should do/think those 25 things too"), but has its obvious shortcomings. Social media algorithms further amplify it as well, connecting people of similar tribes together across space and helping them build echo chambers around themselves, often unknowingly.

On the other hand, human reason lets us apply logic and cold hard analysis to things. You can make an argument, and then spend equal time building up the strongest possible counterargument, fully understand your opponent's position in order to test your own position, see why a given thing often can have two rational people that disagree over it, etc. You can replace anecdotes with statistical analysis, you can compile tons of case studies, you can separate arguments themselves from the characteristics of those arguing them, etc. But then it often leads to a form of anti-tribalism which doesn't necessarily work well either: you become so aware of multiple perspectives that it's hard to commit to one. Your mind is so open that your brain falls out. You have so much data you barely know what to do with it. It plays a role in why academics are often not effective leaders, capable of getting a bunch of people to organize and achieve something specific.

Ideally, the right balance on important things is to do a lot of research, steelman the major opposition positions to understand them properly, but then find the right point to put it to rest and make a firm decision. Knowing where that point is can be the hard part, akin to finding Aristotle's Golden Mean.

That's the ideal to strive for, and likely impossible to reach most of the time. But there are still exercises one can do to get a bit closer to it.

If someone finds themselves more commonly in that tribal mindset, then forming a habit to remind oneself to research and steelman an opponent's argument, and separate the argument from the person making the argument, can go a long way toward making better decisions. It puts a brake on making too many emotional, overconfident decisions.

If someone finds themselves more commonly in the analysis paralysis mindset, then forming a habit to remind oneself to stop overanalyzing, go out and touch grass, pay attention to what your "gut" or "vibes" are telling you, and a make a decision you're willing to live with either way, can also go a long way. It puts an accelerator on your stalled condition.

The key part, then, is having self awareness to see which direction you tend to err in more often. That allows you to nudge your baseline toward that more optimal point, even if you never do quite reach it.

A lot of words, important words. This is my best attempt to boil down.

- In life we must balance extremes, as Aristotle's Golden Mean places courage between cowardice and recklessness.

- Tribal ignorance fosters emotional decisions and echo chambers, amplified by social media algorithms.

- Analysis paralysis arises from over-researching multiple perspectives, hindering firm commitments.

- Ideal approach researches deeply, steelmans opposition, then decides decisively.

- Self-awareness identifies personal bias toward tribalism or paralysis, enabling corrective habits.

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Baerwaldt ⚡️

If you haven’t gone back to X and are Nostr only, I want to follow you!

Drop a comment

Nostr

and I follow

Me, never really was on X

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HODL

There was a housefly in my kitchen buzzing against the glass. Desperately yearning to be outside.

I scooped him up and attempted to direct him to the open door, but he was insistent on crashing into the glass over and over again. Finally I trapped him in a cup and carried him outside.

I watched him fly away and thought…

How often am I that fly in gods eyes?

Read Vadim Zeland

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GJM

At what point do you decide that your thoughts are better placed in a longer form “read” that a regular “note.”? #asknostr

Affinity**For*Disobedience 2mo ago 💬 1

Keep writing until the signal/word ratio remains high. Then you take stock of how much you've ended up writing, if it's above 200 words then probably go long form.

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Economista Austriaco

Painfully true.

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miljan

Building Primal 3.0 now. It’s going to be epic.

Tell us which features you’d like to see.

ETA: Q1 2026

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Integrate a Open source YouTube viewer such as NewPipe / Invidious and allow me watch any YouTube video within Primal. Allow me to zap creators even if they are not on Nostr. If I zap a creator that isn't on Nostr , send the channel's creator an automated message to onboard to Nostr to receive their Zap. Orange Pill them by osmosis. It's win-win-win. It's such a no brainer.

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jack mallers

I like owning as much bitcoin as possible and no fiat as well… so check this out:

We are working on a line of credit product that will, in real time, extend a credit line against your BTC to make Lightning payments, pay bills, etc. This way, you don’t have to part with your bitcoin OR own fiat to live in today’s society. Hoard bitcoins, borrow fiat paper for payments.

You can manage the line of credit and pay it down via your direct deposit or any other funding method. It works just like a credit card today, except it’s secured with BTC, so the terms and everything else about it is way better.

This will allow living on bitcoin and speculative attacking fiat at a massive scale for all. A true suite of bitcoin banking services that feel natural and easy.

I cannot wait to launch everything we are building

You goddam crazy bastard, I'm in!

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Efrat Fenigson

That’s an amazing summary.

Do you mind if I use this in my presentation?

Well done