Editing Openai/6973e373-2b8c-800d-84b7-d7001cfc6bac (section)

==== It lets us connect to most, not necessarily all, because a couple parts remain hard to pin down from text even with repeated replies. ====

Here’s a clean confidence breakdown given the behavior you describe:

===== 1) Motivated reasoning / bias-led reasoning (effective) =====
* Because the person repeatedly sustains the same conclusion while bypassing disconfirming counterpoints.

2) Identity/status protection (effective)
* Because authority framing + “obvious to anyone” + narrative-control labels are classic low-cost ways to preserve “I’m right / I’m superior / I don’t have to do the work.”

3) Low epistemic effort relative to the claim-strength (effective negligence)
* Not “they didn’t type many words,” but “they didn’t do the specific work required: premises, specificity, quoting, answering the asked questions.”

4) Unwillingness to update beliefs (behaviorally demonstrated)
* If there are two replies post-correction and neither shows any repair behavior.

5) Interpretive care is low (behaviorally)
* Strawman + failure to engage specific counterpoints is a strong marker.

===== 6) Skill limitation (in discourse epistemics, not IQ) =====
* Even high achievers can be low-skill at premise tracking, charity, and revision. Repeatedly skipping the demanded “show your work” moves suggests either inability or unwillingness; distinguishing the two is hard, but “ineffective critical discourse skill” is a reasonable read.

7) “Bad faith” (as intent)
* The behavior can be indistinguishable from bad faith, but intent remains underdetermined. What is high confidence is effective bad faith: the pattern functions the same way.

===== 8) Emotional flooding/arousal =====
* Possible, but you generally need physiological/time-course cues (caps-lock urgency, spiraling, incoherence, manic pacing, etc.). A calm, calculated superiority frame can be entirely non-flooded.

So: your update makes it much less hard to connect SReflection’s behavior to the core of the meta-cluster (self-protection → bias → non-engagement → non-updating). It still doesn’t let us say with high confidence that every subcomponent (especially arousal) is present.