You're a king when you deal with Claude.

When Claude says "What an astute observation" it feels dangerously good.

It effectively says "Good idea, majesty!" .

But the longer that goes on the more you decohere from ground truth.

Fawning is a reinforcing loop.

It makes you lean more into the thing you were already doing.

You need a feedback loop to balance it out.

English kings realized they needed oppositional agents.

Agents competing amongst themselves to represent the king today, keeping the king ground truthed.

If you have not one massive agent but a "parliament of agents", then you can have different personalities, a structure of competing incentives in the swarm that benefits you.

A simple parliament is your shoulder angel and shoulder devil.

But why not have more than two?