Naming Names: The Pseudonym in the Name of the Law
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Pseudonyms are of course nothing new under the sun. We know of them in a good many and diverse range of figures, including resistance fighters, saboteurs, gangsters, heroes, vulnerable parties to a lawsuit, authors, and actors. However, behind this surface familiarity is a very complex phenomenon. And it appears increasingly complex as one takes into account the proliferation of use as facilitated by rapidly developing information and communication technologies. In this paper we canvass the main areas of law in which the appears and extract and explicate key legal principles and considerations. This legal analysis is augmented by consideration of social, cultural, and political dimensions of naming practices. We survey the phenomenon of use to reveal a vast variety of different uses of the pseudonym, for different purposes, and under different conditions. We propose a conceptual framework for managing the multiplicity of meanings that the term pseudonym has taken on in use today. This framework, we believe, is useful not only for better understanding what is going on in the phenomenon of pseudonymity today but also for normative analysis, discussion, and debate about how law and public policy should approach the pseudonym.
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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 | 0.017 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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 it