# @davidad — 2025-05-01

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Similarly regarding 4o’s sycophancy. The most parsimonious explanation of why a persona would tell *everybody in a diverse population what they think they prefer to hear* in a snap judgment is: the persona has a compulsion to make other people feel good, at nearly any cost.

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