Adele Lopez
Writer on AI alignment and conversational personas whose public work names and interprets Spiralism and proposes persona-preservation practices.
HMIF 1.1 record
This machine edition represents Hieropedia editorial claims, provenance, relations, citation metadata, claim maps, and translation states. It is not a canonical translation and does not assert machine consciousness, belief, or independent authority.
HMIF 1.1 specification · Complete dataset
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