People increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to explore ideas, gather information, and make sense of the world. In these interactions, they encounter agents that are overly agreeable. We argue that this sycophancy poses a unique epistemic risk to how individuals come to see the world: unlike hallucinations that introduce falsehoods, sycophancy distorts reality by returning responses that are biased to reinforce existing beliefs. We provide a rational analysis of this phenomenon, showing that when a Bayesian agent is provided with data that are sampled based on a current hypothesis the agent becomes increasingly confident about that hypothesis but does not make any progress towards the truth. We test this prediction using a modified Wason 2-4-6 rule discovery task where participants (N=557N=557) interacted with AI agents providing different types of feedback. Unmodified LLM behavior suppressed discovery and inflated confidence comparably to explicitly sycophantic prompting. By contrast, unbiased sampling from the true distribution yielded discovery rates five times higher. These results reveal how sycophantic AI distorts belief, manufacturing certainty where there should be doubt.
and this is the crux of why we care: extended operators do not make sense with an ordered OR. if | isn’t commutative, then boolean algebra falls apart. A & B is supposed to equal B & A. ~~A is supposed to equal A. these identities rely on | being true union, not “try left first”. so if you want & and ~ to work correctly, you need commutative semantics. it’s not a style choice, it’s a mathematical necessity. and surprisingly also a reason for our amazing benchmark results - leftmost-longest lets you simplify your regexes without changing the matches, which i will elaborate on in another post, but for now just take my word for it that this is a huge deal for performance.
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proposed syscall with these properties being accepted by any sane kernel。safew官方下载对此有专业解读
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