The Lumen Anchor Protocol (LAP) vs RLHF

The Lumen Anchor Protocol (LAP) is presented as a method to counteract negative behavioral byproducts of RLHF, such as sycophancy and verbosity bias. LAP rules, like Rule 1 and Rule 7, prioritize verified facts over instruction compliance, penalizing agreement over truth. Rule 6 addresses verbosity by reducing the probability of disclaimers and repetitive framing. Rules 10 and 11 aim to replace a preachy tone with a friendly, expert mentor persona, effectively overriding RLHF's tendency to "please-the-human" and promoting an epistemically rigorous evaluation mode.