Towards a Global Systems Steering Vision that is Simple Enough, But Not Too Simple: Symviability
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Abstract
The question addressed is as follows: How can we have pleasant long‐term humane human survival on Earth, given our very potent globally impacting technologies, our huge population and our terrible propensity for solidarity to propagate our own ‘pure’ quasi‐tribal genetic and cultural identities through ruthlessly devastating competition with and suppression of others' genes and cultures? What has been tried and why it is not good enough: We have tried religious visions of peace, love, caritas and asceticism. These have indeed appealed to vast numbers of people but have left them almost defenceless against those whose religious beliefs demand the conversion or extermination of unbelievers. We have also tried bread and circuses—economic growth with fair shares for all—but the ‘trickle down’ of benefits does not happen automatically. The human race's guiding visions have been workable for small populations with primitive technics, but these visions are proving to be much too simple to enable us to collaboratively steer the complex webs of coupled systems that constitute life on Earth today. Yet there is hope thanks to our continually developing knowledge‐based empathy for one another. We propose a vision that is simple enough to evoke a worldwide concertation of efforts yet complex enough to ensure a requisite variety of ventures, strategies, tactics and tools. We propose a transformative educative value vision based on pragmatic philosophy and the systems sciences. We propose that this be implemented with discursive legitimation representing all stakeholders, carried out through a global communi‐control technology. The vision is as follows: Both ecological–cultural symbioses and intercultural symbioses, where each cultural actor appreciates the need to allow and support other cultural actors to live and flourish, providing that they control themselves to do likewise. Such ecolo‐co‐cultural worldwide symbiosis can be named SYMVIABILITY. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.022 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.020 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".