Contemporary castration: why the modern day eunuch remains invisible
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Let’s study emasculation. No, we don’t mean the loss of political power. That’s a metaphorical sense. We mean the real thing: the removal or chemical destruction of a man’s testes. And here we refer not to the manufacturing of courtiers in Constantinople, nor to the construction of a caste of opera singers, but to modern day emasculations. Although to many people castration signifies a barbarism that disappeared with the demise of the Ottoman empire, the Chinese dynasties, and the castrati movement in European music, there are surely more men living with removed or functionally arrested testes today than at any other time in history. A minority either identify as women and have sex reassignment surgery or sought castration simply to suppress their libidos.1 2 By far the majority, though, are prostate cancer patients, and it’s this group that we focus on here. Chemically shutting down or surgically removing the main source of testosterone—the testes—can slow the spread of prostate cancer. Castration, of course, has extensive side effects.3 A castrated adult male will lose muscle but gain fat.4 He can expect hot flushes like those that women have at menopause.5 He will lose body hair, …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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 it