Contagious Laughter and the Burlesque: From the Literal to the Metaphorical
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Georges Bataille insisted on the role contagion plays in laughter, an emotional experience in which he discerns ‘the specific form of human interattraction’.1 The philosopher distinguishes between a mediated interattraction and a more immediate one, the first being linked to the presence of a ‘trigger’ (in this case the comical object), the second to the psychosociological permeability that favours ‘contagion’ or ‘sympathie’: Les organismes semblables sont susceptibles, dans de nombreux cas, d’être traversés par des : ils sont en quelque sorte perméables à ces mouvements. Je n’ai d’ailleurs fait ainsi qu’énoncer en d’autres termes le principe bien connu de la contagion, ou si Ton veut encore de la sympathie, mais je l’ai fait je crois avec une précision suffisante. Si l’on admet la perméabilité à des mouvements d’ensemble, à des mouvements continus, le phénomène de la reconnaissance apparaîtra construit à partir du sentiment de perméabilité éprouvé en face d’un autre/socius. [Like organisms, in many instances, may well experience group movements. They are somehow permeable to such movements. What is more, I have thus only stated in other terms the well-known principle of contagion, or if you still want to call it that, fellow feeling, , but I believe I have done this with sufficient precision. If one acknowledges permeability in ‘group movements’, in continuous movements, the phenomenon of recognition will appear to be constructed on the basis of the feeling of permeability experienced when confronted with an other/socius.]
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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