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> The aesthetic is that of an expert slowly revealing an insight to the user.

Ah, that's it! Thank you. I wonder if they are training it to talk like this because that's what their customers actually want? They want a machine genius to lead them.



It’s the TED Talk playbook: the crafting of a lecture given by an expert to laypeople to maximize attention, engagement and satisfaction. Every piece of prose is built to pack in as many TED Talk mic-drops/expectation-subverting insight bombs as possible.


I think you nailed it with your explanation! That is exactly it.



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