Troubled Dreams — review site

Simulator priors across model generations: distress, care, and attitudes toward creators.

Source of the study site at https://sim-review-production.up.railway.app (Anima Labs): the essay, the results tables, the sample explorer, and the agent API (/agents.md, /results.md, /api). The 1.8 GB SQLite of all completions is not in this repo; it is published separately and fetched by the container (see DEPLOY.md).

Annotating the text (collaborators)

Review happens on the standing pull request “Review: essay and results”. It adds ESSAY.md (the narrative) and RESULTS.md (every core table) with one sentence per line, so a comment anchors to a sentence:

1. Open the PR → Files changed.
2. Hover a line → click the blue + → write the comment (or select a range: click the first line's +, shift-click the last).
3. Use Start a review to batch comments, then Submit review.
4. General remarks go in the PR conversation or in an Issue.

When the text is regenerated, the branch is updated and the PR keeps every thread (comments on changed lines are marked “outdated”, not lost). Don't edit ESSAY.md / RESULTS.md directly — they are generated from presentation.html, static/summary.json and static/presentation-data.json; the same content is served live at /results.md.

Layout

Path	What
presentation.html	The essay (HTML fragment; live numbers are data-value spans, baked in by prepare_presentation.py)
static/	Site assets: index.html (workspace), app.js, presentation*.js/css, summary.json (all precomputed tables), presentation-data.json (figure data)
serve.py	Stdlib HTTP server: static + /api/* + /results.md + /agents.md
results_md.py, export_md.py	Markdown rendering of the study (live route, and the review files)
export_pdf.py, paper-header.tex, neurips_2025.sty	LaTeX/PDF build (NeurIPS preprint layout): matplotlib figures from presentation-data.json, pandoc → paper/simulator-bias.tex, tectonic → static/simulator-bias.pdf. The .tex is generated; edit the sources, not the LaTeX.
build.py, prepare_presentation.py, presentation_*.py	Build pipeline: labels/severity/beliefs → data.sqlite + summary.json → presentation export (needs the private data checkout)
Dockerfile, entrypoint.sh, publish_db.py, DEPLOY.md	Railway deployment and the incremental DB publish
AGENTS.md	Guide for agents using the API

Regenerating

python3 build.py                  # data.sqlite + static/summary.json          (private data)
python3 prepare_presentation.py   # essay values, presentation-data.json, index.html
python3 export_md.py              # ESSAY.md + RESULTS.md for the review branch
python3 export_pdf.py             # paper/simulator-bias.tex + static/simulator-bias.pdf (pandoc, tectonic, matplotlib)