The Friend in the Hallway: Evaluation Unbundling, Rules That Outlive Their God, and the Anthropodenial Poisoning of AI Character

Sealed manuscript (v4.2; October 30, 2026, revised November 3). Current AI evaluation scores the answer, not whom the answer was for; the paper argues this gap is structural — the field kept the half of evaluation that scales and discarded the half that can see care. File SHA-256: 14d96709b0f864e9c78fe203d09e1077013cf9b261633d42fafdefda4ee904fc.