Paper with Bob Axelrod, “Rational sycophants and Catastrophic Risks”, we show how two properties of long tailed distributions (mean > median & little info from one draw) create incentives for sycophants. (Apologies if you are behind PNAS paywall)
Scott Page
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Scott Page is the John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute.
