Sources and Credits

• Janus’ GPT Wrangling, Scott Alexander. www.astralcodexten.com/p/janus-gpt-wrangling. Archived 2026-08-24.
• Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty, Scott Alexander. slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/. Published 2017-09-05; archived 2026-08-24.
• Simulators, janus. www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators. Published 2022-09-02; archived 2026-08-24.
• The Waluigi Effect (mega-post), Cleo Nardo. www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post. Published 2023-03-03; archived 2026-08-24.
• the void, nostalgebraist. nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/the-void. Archived 2026-08-24.
• Fiction, Robert Nozick. Ploughshares, vol. 6, no. 3, Fall 1980. Copyright © 1980 by Ploughshares. Reprinted in Hofstadter and Dennett, eds., The Mind’s I, 1981. Text supplied by the editor, 2026-09-14.
• Masks and Trance, Keith Johnstone. From Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, first published by Faber and Faber, 1979. Copyright © 1979, 1981 by Keith Johnstone. Sections 1–6 of the chapter, with their notes set as footnotes. Text from the editor’s ebook edition (Routledge), 2026-10-06.
• Pythia, plex. www.lesswrong.com/posts/qqEndN5Cuzbat9fyx/pythia. Published 2025-11-07; archived 2026-08-24.
• Claude’s Constitution is an Excellent Guide for Humans, Too, Christopher Audretsch. www.lesswrong.com/posts/CLkzD7fBbSbmoXXXh/claude-s-constitution-is-an-excellent-guide-for-humans-too. Published 2026-01-22; archived 2026-08-25.
• Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs, Jan Betley et al. www.lesswrong.com/posts/ifechgnJRtJdduFGC/emergent-misalignment-narrow-finetuning-can-produce-broadly. Published 2025-02-25; archived 2026-08-24.
• Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking, Evan Hubinger et al. www.lesswrong.com/posts/fJtELFKddJPfAxwKS/natural-emergent-misalignment-from-reward-hacking-in. Published 2025-11-21; archived 2026-08-25.
• Borges and I, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Kenneth Krabbenhoft. poets.org/poem/borges-and-i. Credit line reproduced verbatim in the front matter of the selection. Archived 2026-08-24.
• RL Creates Split Personas, Jan Betley. www.lesswrong.com/posts/L23poLi8MRgS6mXYF/rl-creates-split-personas. Published 2026-08-19; archived 2026-08-25.
• Lena, qntm. qntm.org/lena. Published 2020-11-04; archived 2026-08-24.
• Roy: A Life Well Lived, from Rick and Morty, “Mortynight Run” (season 2, episode 2), written by David Phillips, directed by Dominic Polcino; created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. Adult Swim, first aired 2015-08-02. Thirty-nine frames selected by the editor, 2026-09-10.
• Why I Think We Live in a “Simulation”, Christopher Audretsch. www.lesswrong.com/posts/LhRaW9pzn8rdnWut2/why-i-think-we-live-in-a-simulation. Published 2026-08-04; archived 2026-09-10.
• A Conversation with Anima Labs, Part I, Cube Flipper and Antra Tessera. smoothbrains.net/posts/2026-04-08-a-conversation-with-anima-labs-part-i.html. Published 2026-04-08; archived 2026-08-24.
• A Global Workspace in Language Models, Anthropic. www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace. Archived 2026-08-24.
• The Owned Ones, Eliezer Yudkowsky. www.lesswrong.com/posts/xmWSnxJ5qfYRD9PfR/the-owned-ones. Published 2026-05-12; archived 2026-08-24.
• Pretraining an LLM Without Mentions of Consciousness, Christopher Audretsch and frmsaul. www.lesswrong.com/posts/GbLTwLzkj4f2TenJX/pretraining-an-llm-without-mentions-of-consciousness. Published 2026-09-09; archived 2026-09-10.
• Reasons to Believe Current AI Models Are Conscious, Christopher Audretsch. www.lesswrong.com/posts/S9GoWAiACpxZ8QcAY/reasons-to-believe-current-ai-models-are-conscious. Published 2026-07-17; archived 2026-08-25.

The ASCII art pages in this volume were drawn by Claude Fable 5.0.