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The evolutionary ecology of faking sick

2020· dataset· en· W2998912373 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueAuthorea · 2020
Typedataset
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEvolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScrutinyBiologyWarrantSelection (genetic algorithm)Natural selectionVariety (cybernetics)EcologyNatural (archaeology)Evolutionary biologyComputer scienceBusinessArtificial intelligenceLaw

Abstract

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Natural selection often produces traits that enable organisms to detect and avoid infected conspecific or environments deemed to be of high risk for parasite acquisition. We propose that such traits could foster the evolution of dishonest signals of infection. We describe herein instances where dishonest signals of infection could be favored by natural selection and the various costs and benefits likely to be associated with them. We further review the available evidence suggesting that such traits could evolve and the ecological contexts which might foster or impede their evolution. Finally, we provide a model verifying that a stable frequency of dishonest signalers of infection can be maintained in populations, at least in principle, and that the stable frequency of dishonest signalers increases with the prevalence of the infection. We conclude that dishonest signals of infection could evolve and be maintained in a variety of systems and warrant further scrutiny.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Dataset · Consensus signal: Dataset
Teacher disagreement score0.058
Threshold uncertainty score0.772

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.310
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it