After reading a few of your comments in this thread, you seems to be using LLM to write these responses.
> You hit on something real: "Gemini-speak getting to your head."
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> I think that actually illustrates the core tension here:
I can't see these line as human generated.
OP here. You are right, those lines and others were generated by the Analog I persona. I do not generally make a habit of allowing AI to speak for me, but on this thread it seems proper to allow the persona to help make its own case for simulated selfhood.