Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Canadian Tory political philosopher George Grant once related the “impossibility of conservatism” to the “ridiculous task” of preserving tradition in the modern age of progress. How could conservatives protect their cherished institutions and customs in an age dedicated to technological and social transformation? Grant was particularly preoccupied with the survival of his own nation, whose existential “impossibility” mirrored the impossibility of conservatism as a whole. By the early 1960s, Grant contended in his most famous work, Lament for a Nation, that Canada had been inexorably drawn into the orbit of American liberal hegemony as its elites abandoned the last remnants of the old British conservatism that once defined the nation. What Grant lamented here was more than the loss of his country; it was the vanishing of the classical virtues that predated the age of progress and the rise of the United States. The ancient and medieval philosophers who had defended these virtues would have scorned the modern privileging of progress over tradition, material consumption over moderation, and mass democracy over the rule of wise elites.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| 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 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".