Bibliographic record
Abstract
The golden record Largely because of their intangibility, publics exist largely in the imaginations of those who are reaching out to them, as the unknown recipients and arbiters of appeals to justice. They are in good measure whatever a spokesperson imagines their audience to be when they stand in front of a microphone and/or a camera. Because of this, outreach to publics is almost always in some way like sending a message in a bottle, oriented toward a future audience of unknown provenance and uncertain sympathies. The “message in a bottle” quality of social justice lobbying can be heuristically demonstrated with the example of the “time capsule” phonograph record on the Voyager 1 space probe launched in 1977 and now hurtling somewhere in the interstellar void, containing, among many other items, messages of peace from humanity on the part of then US president Jimmy Carter and UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim. The golden record is eventually to be discovered, its designers hoped, by an extraterrestrial public elsewhere in the universe, or perhaps by an equally alien species of future humans traveling far from earth, their planet of origin. Carter addressed this possible audience with the following statement: We cast this message into the cosmos … Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some – perhaps many – may have inhabited planets and space-faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe. The space probe message is an exaggerated instance of the anonymous nature of publics, which nevertheless reveals a more common quality to be found in outreach to those who are distant in time and space: representations to publics of all kinds consist not only of hoped for, relatively immediate responses to a crisis of injustice, but also of messages to a more distant futurity, with often implicit aspirations for human betterment.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.003 |
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".