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== Notes ==

<references>
<ref name=whale-pun>{{cite book
 | title = Unsong
 | chapter = Chapter 5: Never Seek to Tell Thy Love
 | last = Alexander
 | first = Scott
 | date = January 31, 2016
 | url = https://unsongbook.com/chapter-5-never-seek-to-tell-thy-love/
}}
</ref>
<ref name=dsm>{{cite book
 | title = Unsong
 | chapter = Chapter 1: Dark Satanic Mills
 | last = Alexander
 | first = Scott
 | date = January 31, 2016
 | url = https://unsongbook.com/chapter-1-dark-satanic-mills/
}}
</ref>
<ref name=bensalem>
{{cite web
 |title=Voyages to the End of the World, Part I
 |last1=Thiel
 |first1=Peter
 |last2=Wolfe
 |first2=Sam
 |date=October 1, 2025
 |website=First Things
 |url=https://www.firstthings.com/voyages-to-the-end-of-the-world/
 |access-date=2025-10-12
}}
</ref>
<ref name=new-atlantis>
{{cite book
 |last=Bacon
 |first=Francis
 |title=The New Atlantis
 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2434/2434-h/2434-h.htm
 |publisher=William Lee
 |location=London
 |year=1627
 |via=Project Gutenberg
 |access-date=2025-10-12
}}
</ref>
<ref name=ac>
Leonardo da Vinci turns out to be an Assassin - the good guys - in the Assassin's Creed stories, and King George III is secretly a Templar - the bad guys.
</ref>
<ref name=cot-nonsense>
{{cite web
 |title=Will Chains of Thought Stay Readable for Long?
 |author=Rocket Drew
 |website=The Information
 |url=https://www.theinformation.com/articles/will-chains-thought-stay-readable-long
 |publisher=The Information
 |date=Jun 26, 2025
 |access-date=October 12, 2025
 |language=English
}}
</ref>
<ref name=assumptions>
Neither of which is guaranteed, but each of which is boring when negated. He could be engaging in motivated reasoning, it's true, or just be entirely wrong.
</ref>
<ref name=unlikely-rhetoric>
Unlikely considering the effort expended on ''New Atlantis'' there
</ref>
<ref name=weird-cot-pb>
[https://pastebin.com/eTHxhZTY ''Pastebin of DeepSeek R1 weird CoT''], personal Twitter DM w/ Arun Jose
</ref>
</references>


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