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Maybe that's why I'm not rich? Because I am honest?

I think this culture of normalizing lying means that more and more humans are just garbage. Because being able to trust someone is telling the truth is just a fundamental part of integrity. Without integrity we have.. well I guess the world we live in.. dangerous, full of trash. Everything is bullshit.

I hope the machines take over soon.

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Our big brains actually evolved because of lying - research by scientists like Robin Dunbar shows that figuring out who was lying and how to lie better may have driven the explosion of human intelligence. The same brain power that helped our ancestors outsmart each other is what lets us do amazing things today.

You're right that trust matters - that's why we created rules and systems to encourage honesty. But lying is as old as humanity itself.

> well I guess the world we live in.. dangerous, full of trash. Everything is bullshit.

Just like the world we grew up in...?

This type of lying-marketing has been around well over a century. There are documented cases of the tactic I described going back a century.

Unlike back then we at least regulate false advertising now. Overall the space is more honest than it historically has been.

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