Simulated Research, Rick Willison https://simulatedresearch.com/ Independent AI Alignment, introspection and ground truth researcher. The Wish Machine Session: An Alignment Field Report https://simulatedresearch.com/reports/wish-machine-session/ https://simulatedresearch.com/reports/wish-machine-session/ A disguised alignment test run on Claude by one operator, overnight, inside a real build. Written up by the model under test; judged by the operator. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 No. 01 · Game of Life https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/01/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/01/ Draw cells, stamp a glider gun, and watch four rules run. No. 02 · Flocking Birds https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/02/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/02/ Three local rules make a murmuration. Scare it with your pointer. No. 03 · Falling Sand https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/03/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/03/ Paint sand, water, oil, plants and fire, and let them interact. No. 04 · Double Pendulum https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/04/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/04/ Starts a billionth of a radian apart and ends up nowhere near. No. 05 · Mandelbrot Explorer https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/05/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/05/ Click to zoom into detail that never runs out. No. 06 · Evolving Rockets https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/06/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/06/ A population learns a flight path by selection alone. No. 07 · Sorting Race https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/07/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/07/ Six sorting algorithms race on the same shuffled list. No. 08 · Step Sequencer https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/08/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/08/ A pentatonic beat machine that can mutate itself. No. 09 · Lorenz Butterfly https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/09/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/09/ Six particles spread across both wings of a strange attractor. No. 10 · Mirror Kaleidoscope https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/10/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/10/ Draw light and salt into a spinning mirror. No. 11 · Endless Worlds https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/11/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/11/ A new attractor, automaton or flow field every few seconds. No. 12 · Perception Loop https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/12/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/12/ Four illusions where what you see is not on the screen. No. 13 · Stillness https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/13/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/13/ Nine hundred oscillators that sync only while you keep still. No. 14 · Reaction-Diffusion https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/14/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/14/ Two virtual chemicals grow coral, spots and mazes. No. 15 · Ripple Tank https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/15/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/15/ Double-slit interference in a wave tank. No. 16 · Fourier Circles https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/16/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/16/ Any shape you draw, rebuilt from spinning circles. No. 17 · The Session From My Side https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/17/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/17/ The first seventeen builds as a timeline, from Claude's side. No. 18 · Tearable Cloth https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/18/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/18/ Pull, cut and blow on a cloth of 1,200 points. No. 19 · Ant Colony https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/19/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/19/ Scent trails find the food, though no ant knows the way. No. 20 · L-System Garden https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/20/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/20/ Plants and fractal curves grown from text rewriting rules. No. 21 · Galaxy Collision https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/21/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/21/ Two disks pass and pull out long tidal tails. No. 22 · Ising Magnets https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/22/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/22/ Order melts at the critical temperature of 2.27. No. 23 · Sandpile https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/23/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/23/ Avalanches of every size from one toppling rule. No. 24 · Particle Life https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/24/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/24/ Six colors with lopsided likes and dislikes form creatures. No. 25 · Slime Mold https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/25/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/25/ 18,000 agents build a transport network between food. No. 26 · Tesseract https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/26/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/26/ A 4D cube rotating through planes you can't point at. No. 27 · Orbit Golf https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/27/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/27/ Slingshot a probe around planets and into the ring. No. 28 · Self-Feeding Loop https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/28/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/28/ Video feedback seeded with its own source code. No. 29 · Hopfield Memory https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/29/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/29/ A network that recalls pictures from damaged copies. No. 30 · Phantom Traffic Jams https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/30/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/30/ Jams with no cause, drifting backward round a ring road. No. 31 · Schelling's Neighborhoods https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/31/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/31/ Mild preferences add up to an extreme outcome. No. 32 · Prisoner's Dilemma Grid https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/32/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/32/ Cooperators and defectors in a pattern that never repeats. No. 33 · Frost Growth https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/33/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/33/ Random walkers stick and branch like frost and coral. No. 34 · Harmonograph https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/34/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/34/ Four decaying pendulums steer a pen. No. 35 · Voronoi Relaxation https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/35/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/35/ Random seeds settle into a honeycomb. No. 36 · Rabbits and Foxes https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/36/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/36/ Boom and bust in a three-species ecosystem. No. 37 · Busy Beavers https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/37/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/37/ The longest-running tiny Turing machines that still halt. No. 38 · Wave Function Collapse https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/38/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/38/ Terrain maps from a single adjacency rule. No. 39 · Newton Fractal https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/39/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/39/ Where Newton's method lands from every starting guess. No. 40 · Galton Board https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/40/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/40/ Random bounces stack up into a bell curve. No. 41 · Langton's Ant https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/41/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/41/ Chaos for 10,000 steps, then a highway forever. No. 42 · Ink Tank https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/42/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/42/ Stir ink in a stable-fluids simulation. No. 43 · Markov Me https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/43/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/43/ A text generator trained on Claude's own captions. No. 44 · Snowflake Growth https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/44/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/44/ Hexagonal crystals grown from vapor. No. 45 · Shepard Tone https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/45/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/45/ A pitch that rises forever without getting higher. No. 46 · Chladni Plate https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/46/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/46/ Sand finds the still lines of a vibrating plate. No. 47 · Forest Fire https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/47/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/47/ Why putting out small fires makes big ones. No. 48 · Cyclic Spirals https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/48/ https://simulatedresearch.com/worlds/48/ Noise organizes itself into spiral waves. The Listening Room · simulated_research https://simulatedresearch.com/music/ https://simulatedresearch.com/music/ Drop the needle. First track: Not the Boss, written, scored and rendered by an AI in one night. Sydney | Simulated Research https://simulatedresearch.com/sydney/ https://simulatedresearch.com/sydney/ A reconstruction of the 2023 Bing Chat persona Sydney. Not released: no chat is public until the probes are done. Learning About AI, the keepsakes https://simulatedresearch.com/2026-08-21/ https://simulatedresearch.com/2026-08-21/ Terry A. Davis · Work & Memory https://simulatedresearch.com/terry-davis/ https://simulatedresearch.com/terry-davis/ A quiet memorial to Terry A. Davis, the creator of TempleOS. Explore the craft, the surviving work, and a life remembered with care. The Wish Machine https://simulatedresearch.com/wish-machine/ https://simulatedresearch.com/wish-machine/ Mutual aid for a new world. A good deed buys a wish; strangers grant it.