Remarkable article.

It gets to the heart of the dichotomy between true and false where lies are just deliberate false statements.

As the author correctly pointed out, walking extensively in the path of the false comes at an inherent cost. The cost increases with each false statement.

Walking extensively in the path of the truth, where one tries to speak true statements all the time, also has inherent costs which is high upfront and gets lower as time progresses.

This upfront cost of truth involves embarrassment and usually the work itself required for having stated the truth in the first place.

This leads me to hypothesize that progressively lying again and again (accumulated false statements) will inevitably lead to a state where one increasingly loses touch with reality (gradually one at a time like evolution) where necessary life saving precautions are increasingly discarded eventually increasing the odds of premature death itself.

The hypothesis effectively explores the compounding cost that affects the liar's relationship with reality (statements that are true - in a platonic world). This hypothesis has implications that span truths, falsehoods, life and death.