Unveiling the Right Side: A Conversation with Pheidias and Pericles about the Elgin Marbles and Other Matters
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Abstract
Just before a scientific conference in Porto Heli, Greece, in September of 2009, I visited the newly opened Acropolis Museum in Athens, which is very close to, and overlooks the old hill and the ruins of Parthenon. It was a busy day and the museum was packed with people. I really felt proud of being Greek, knowing that my ancestors created these beautiful antiquities. As I was glancing around, I saw two gentlemen who were strangely dressed, wearing ropes and sandals. At first, I thought these were two cuckoos, but as they came closer, I realized that they wanted to have a conversation with me. I introduced myself as a Greek biochemist living in Toronto and they returned the favor by introducing themselves as “Pheidias” and “Pericles.” My God, they were crying like kids! We sat in a corner of the museum overlooking the ancient field and the ruins of the Parthenon on the Acropolis and started chatting. I asked them first, “Why are you guys crying so much? Do you need food or money or something? I can spare some Euros for you.” I could see that they were heartbroken. They said, “No, no, no, we don’t need food, euros, or anything like that. We have enough of these.” And then I told them, “I thought you guys were dead 2000 years ago.” They said, “Yeah, our bodies are dead but our spirits are not.” They mentioned that they were there, at the bottom of the hill, every day, looking at the Parthenon and remembering the good old days. They revealed to me that they had been crying like kids for over 2000 years and, then, they told me more of their story. They said that 2000 years ago, one of them, Pericles, was the democratically elected Leader of …
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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