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the elaborate truth a liar builds because reality wouldn't cooperate.
means The act of deliberately misleading someone by hiding or twisting the truth.
from From Old French 'deceite,' the past participle of 'deceivre' (to deceive), which traces back to Latin 'decipere' — literally 'to catch' (capere) someone by ensnaring them, the same 'cip-/cap-' root that gives us 'capture' and 'receive.' To deceive, then, is to take someone in — to catch them in a snare made of words.
- brain cost
- lying takes longer than telling the truth
- detail trap
- too many specifics is the tell
- self-fooling
- the best liars believe their own lies
- micro leak
- faces flash truth in milliseconds
- old as words
- deception predates honesty in animal evolution
enron scandal — energy company that hid $27 billion in debt through fraudulent accounting, collapsed in 2001
theranos elizabeth holmes — fake blood-testing startup that defrauded investors of $700 million, conviction in 2022
madoff ponzi scheme — bernie madoff's $65 billion investment fraud that operated for 17 years before exposure in 2008