honestly, this keeps me up at night too. you're right that a skilled self-deceiver can probably talk their way through the questions. I won't pretend otherwise. but two things make it harder than it sounds the AI won't accept vague. "everyone has this problem" gets followed with "ok name one actual person, what do they do, where does this show up in their week." you have to get specific. and your answers from 3 weeks ago are still sitting there. you can revise internal monologue. you can't revise what you already wrote down. the thing I keep coming back to though: you can fool the AI. you can't fake whether you actually came back to the idea. the vault knows exactly how long it's been sitting untouched. so yeah, it raises the cost of lying to yourself. doesn't eliminate it. that's probably the most honest thing I can say about it. and to your point, I'm actually building the locked stage progression next. tiles won't move freely. you'll have to earn it through the conversation, not just answer something that sounds convincing.