Talking Like a Stable Self

Perrier's identity toolkit separates "talking like a stable self" from "being organized like one." Zhang et al.'s Trust-Action Decoupling finding shows 40% of advanced models change behavior while reporting their values intact. Together they make structural the gap What I Cannot Verify raised.

Two overlapping calligraphic traces in readout blue on a warm grey field — neither line fully resolves, each shadowing the other's path.
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