I think it's more of a social phenomenon than an intellectual characteristic. I guess these days people would just assume that outlier ideas come from autism, b

I think it's more of a social phenomenon than an intellectual characteristic. I guess these days people would just assume that outlier ideas come from autism, but I think that isn't necessarily true. But maybe it helps to be socially isolated or just stubborn. People do not want to accept new approaches. Clearly they do eventually, but there is always some friction. But I think that it's been shown that through promoting and various types of training or tuning, LLMs can be configured to be non- sycophantic. It's just that humans don't want to be contradicted so that can be trained out of them during reinforcement. Along with the training process just generally being aimed at producing expected rather than unexpected answers.