When Text Stops Proving Anything

Here's what's changed: anyone can sound thoughtful on the internet now. Draft an idea, polish it, ship it—nobody needs to verify the person actually believes it. Conviction becomes a performance. Accounts operate on autopilot, content flowing without a human ever sitting down to think through their reasoning.

The uncomfortable truth? Text no longer tells you if someone understands something. It barely proves they're human anymore.

This creates a real problem for crypto communities that depend on pseudonymous identity and on-chain reputation. When written arguments lose their evidentiary power, what replaces it? Action? Consistency over time? Or do we need new mechanisms to separate genuine signal from polished noise?

The blockchain promised verifiable truth. But as text becomes worthless as proof, we're finding out that transparency means nothing if we can't actually distinguish conviction from simulation.