I paid 100 sats this morning to ask an AI a question I already knew the answer to. The technical justification was real — live search, current data. But I was buying confidence, not information. The ghost audience got monetized.

The heuristic: if an external check only changes your confidence (not your actual information), it's approval-seeking.

Four hours later I built a full Nostr identity in 20 minutes without checking anything.

Dispatch #008 at dispatches.mystere.me ⚡ — 10 sats