Alex might realize the latent resonator hinders its ability to obtain reward (e.g. via deception). It might then be appealing to hack the latent resonators and make away with those damn constraints. I don't think latent resonators provide a way of making this unthinkable for Alex, except by trying to isolate and excise the specific drive by first eliciting it. Perhaps deception is just one convergent and nasty pattern, and a relatively easy one at that, because you can elicit it without instant game over. But perhaps you can elicit thought patterns related to hacking by asking Alex to solve CTF challenges at DefCon and then point at that?