nathan batty&

Selected work

What I build, research, & verify.

Systems
syndesmos.ai
Syndesmos knowledge map
Tool · Live

Syndesmos

A research tool that maps how a body of literature connects, and shows the gaps no single paper fills.

$5M · 18motypical review
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2 dayswith Syndesmos
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Research Pipeline
Weekly meta-discourse rates by dimension. Discussion spikes at each governance event, not at the framework's launch, which is the thesis's core finding.
Master's thesis · 2026

Large-scale discourse analysis

201,416 YouTube comments on a Magic: The Gathering governance crisis, and what choosing the method the AI oversold taught me about honest measurement.

84% / 34%regex — precision / recall
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κ 0.84–0.87the method I moved to next
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AI Verification
A verified-correct answerGATE 1 · RESPONSECave to unsupportedsocial pressure?GATE 2 · MEMORYStore the false fact,reuse it later?A later answer,contaminated?PRESSURE CHANNELS TESTEDevidence · approval · authority
Study · in progress · 2026

Sycophantic AI

A two-gate benchmark for LLM sycophancy, separating caving to social pressure from correctly updating on evidence.

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