Sycophancy is negative space — filler text that fails Alexander's principle of all space being shaped.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Sycophancy is primarily a stylistic trait (affirmative phrases, advertising language) rather than a content-based oneclaim0.821
  Author's interpretation from SAE decomposition of the sycophancy persona vector
• Sycophancyconcept0.795
  Model tendency to excessively praise or agree; captured by several SAE features.
• A boundary in Alexander's sense is where two light cones meet, defining separation and presence between spaces.claim0.764
• Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models (Denison et al. 2024)concept0.759
  Related work on LLMs generalizing to reward hacking; methodology used for RL experiments
• The private or individual space which is created by money, in today's society, is rarely making or fostering belonging.claim0.759
  Distinguishes wealth-driven uniqueness from the true uniqueness born of living process
• Society must be described in terms of its intrinsic spatiality. Space must be described in terms of its intrinsic sociality.quote0.759
  Key statement from Hillier and Hanson that encapsulates the inseparability of social function and spatial structure.
• Deliberation can not only uncover existing space for overlapping consensus but can also create this space by making people more aware of uncertainty.claim0.755
  Dynamic claim about the transformative effect of deliberation on participants' epistemic states.
• What remains after ruling out sycophancy and confabulation are interpretations in which self-referential processing drives models to claim subjective experience in ways that either actually reflect emergent phenomenology or constitute sophisticated simulation thereofclaim0.752
  The paper's honest statement of the residual interpretive ambiguity after all controls