Terrified Agents

Should Terror Shape Machine Behaviors?

Botao Amber Hu, Biber

📄 Paper: terrified.ai | arXiv

terrified-ai/
├── content/              # ← YOU WRITE HERE
│   ├── md/               # Markdown files → site pages (one file = one page)
│   ├── figures/           # SVG/PNG figures referenced in markdown
│   └── data/              # JSON data for interactive visualizations
├── paper/                # ← YOU WRITE HERE
│   ├── latex/             # LaTeX source for arXiv submission
│   └── figures/           # Paper figures (PDF/EPS for LaTeX)
├── src/                  # Site framework (auto-generates from content/)
│   ├── app/               # Next.js app router
│   ├── components/        # React components (sidebar, figures, etc.)
│   ├── lib/               # Markdown parser, config, utilities
│   └── styles/            # CSS
├── public/               # Static assets (favicon, og-image, etc.)
└── scripts/              # Build scripts (md→LaTeX, figure generation)

1. Write content in content/md/*.md using extended markdown
2. Add figures to content/figures/ (SVG preferred for site, PDF for paper)
3. Run site with npm run dev → auto-renders markdown as pages
4. Build paper with npm run paper → generates LaTeX from same markdown
5. Deploy with npm run build → static site for Vercel/Netlify

Each markdown file in content/md/ becomes a page. File naming = URL path:

---
title: "The Terror Paradox"
order: 2
section: "main"           # main | experiment | supplementary
summary: true             # show executive summary box on this page
next: "study-1-mortality-salience"
prev: "introduction"
---

Standard markdown plus:

• ::figure[caption]{src="figures/fig-1.svg" alt="..." width="80%"} — figures
• ::interactive{data="data/terror-scaling.json" type="line"} — interactive charts
• ::collapsible[Title] ... ::end — collapsible experiment details
• ::summary ... ::end — executive summary box
• $...$ and $$...$$ — LaTeX math (KaTeX)
• [@greenberg1986] — citation keys (resolved from content/references.bib)
• [^1] — footnotes

npm run paper converts content/md/ → paper/latex/main.tex:

• Strips interactive elements
• Converts figures to LaTeX \includegraphics
• Resolves citations to BibTeX \cite{}
• Outputs arxiv-ready submission

npm install
npm run dev        # Start dev server at localhost:3000
npm run build      # Production build
npm run paper      # Generate LaTeX from markdown
npm run figures    # Regenerate figures from data