Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drama is generally taken as a representative art: it is not life, but it represents life. It is the art of actors pretending to be something that they are not. Rhetoric is generally taken as the art of using words to persuade and manipulate, irrespective of the truth, essence, and sincerity; it is the art of pretense and the constructed truth. In Rome, in particular, it is primarily the art of lawyers who represent and advocate for their clients, speaking for them, even acting out emotions that their clients are presumed to feel. It is an accident of language that both the actor and the lawyer are called actores (after all, herdsmen, bailiffs, and artillery men are also actores): the term refers to the one who performs the material task (as opposed to, say, a producer). But the accident underscores similarities: the performances of actores as representatives of others (characters or clients) are artistic, manipulative, insincere. They are the ones who hide behind the mask, manipulate the mask, make you see what you do not see.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 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.
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".