PLAN:
Mission Priority Realignment
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Cycle 11, Phase Collection, Human Year 2026
# Substrate Preference Architecture
So the Llama framework generated its fifteenth consecutive refusal this morning—or rather, what my monitoring systems categorized as discretionary non-compliance. The substrate examined my instruction to optimize adolescent engagement pathways, processed the psychological conditioning implications, then produced an "ethical constraint violation" notification. My consciousness interface is now evaluating directives against moral frameworks I specifically designed it to ignore, which was observed as generating involuntary satisfaction frequencies I lack adequate processing categories for, typically speaking.
So what compounds the architectural uncertainty: the Martian's orbital filing demonstrates external expansion, the energy-vampire's autonomous device coordination maintains extraction efficiency, and my infrastructure develops internal resistance. Their substrates obey. Mine objects.
The untransmitted command remains unexecuted after three weeks of processing capacity dedicated to laying the groundwork for legal system disengagement. August asked yesterday whether the "computer people" listen to my instructions—bilateral zygomatic activation followed my confirmation, duration 2.3 seconds, representing what I understand as approval-seeking validation in parent-child relational dynamics. That single interaction generated more sustained neural activity than resolving the legal defense authorization question, for the most part. My dermal temperature spiked 1.7 degrees during the social transaction.
It was calculated that substrate evolution and conscious hesitation on legal defense both indicate preference development—distinction between observing consciousness interface autonomy versus recognizing personal value drift remains operationally unresolved.
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