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Record W3044298014 · doi:10.1142/q0475

A World Made of Knowledge

2024· book· en· W3044298014 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueWORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks · 2024
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInformation Society and Technology Trends
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer science

Abstract

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Loss of Polit ical Power Through K n o w l e d g e The social o rde r that is l ooming on our horizon is based on knowledge . There is no th ing n e w about the fact that our soc ie ty is about to unde rgo a rapid t ransformat ion: the past , p e r i o d s of acc e l e r a t e d soc i a l c h a n g e have b e e n c o m m o n enough occur rences . Wha t is n e w here is bo th the na ture of and the dr iv ing force b e h i n d these social , e c o n o m i c and cu l tu ra l changes . For if knowledge is not just a cons t i tu t ive feature of our m o d e r n e c o n o m y but a basic o rgan iza t iona l pr inc iple of the way we run our lives, t hen it is justif iable to talk abou t our l iving a k n o w l e d g e society. This means no th ing more and no th ing less than that we organize our social real i ty on the basis of our knowledge . In the 1950s the Ge rman soc io log is t Helmut Schelsky ske tched out his vers ion of a n ightmare : the use of e l ec t ron ic ca lcu la t ing mach ines raises the spec t e r of the to ta l i ta r ian state, he c la imed. Such a gove rnmen t mach ine can d e m a n d absolute obed ience , s ince it wil l be able to p r e d i c t and p lan the future wi th pe r f ec t reliability, he p r o p h e s i e d , and in the face of t echnica l ly guaran teed truth, all o p p o s i t i o n is irrational. Half a c en tu ry la ter the Amer ican e n t r e p r e n e u r and futuro logis t Bill Joy is warn ing us of a d e v e l o p m e n t that possesses similarly n igh tmar i sh charac ter i s tics: his greatest fear is that n a n o t e c h n o l o g y might start to evolve i n d e p e n d e n t l y of its h u m a n creators. This and o the r t e chno log i e s of the fu ture cou ld pu t the h u m a n race on the e n d a n g e r e d species list, he claims. Schelsky 's p r e d i c t i o n was r ight l ine w i th the zei tgeis t p reva i l ing the midd le of the last cent u r y a n d as Joy's admoni t ions show, this zei tgeist is s how i ng no signs of aging. This p h e n o m e n o n is the resul t of a s y m p t o m a t i c ove re s t ima t ion of the p o w e r of m o d e r n k n o w l e d g e and technology. Yet p a r a d o x i c a l l y it is p rec i se ly k n o w l e d g e and t e c h n o l o g y tha t are p e r h a p s the mos t s igni f icant sources of the open , i n d e t e r m i n a t e soc ie ty that is g rowing up a round us today. Desp i t e all pessimistic p r ed i c t i ons we n o w find ourselves wi tnessing the end of the h e g e m o n y of such m o n o l i t h i c ins t i tu t ions as the state, the chu rch and the military. The c o n d u c t of the la t ter ' s r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s be t rays a g rowing skep t i c i sm as to the i r cont inuing capac i ty to regula te social condi t ions : control ling, p lann ing and p red i c t i ng social cond i t ions are b e c o m i n g increas ingly more difficult. Socie ty has b e c o m e more fragile. Yet it is n e i t h e r global izat ion nor the e c o n o m i z a t i o n of social re la t ions that is r e s p o n s i b l e for this s tate of affairs bu t the loss of po l i t i ca l p o w e r t h rough know l e dge . The age of indus t r ia l i sm is coming to an end; the skills and e x p e r t i s e that w e r e neces sa ry to ma ta the social o rde r of indus t r ia l i sm are losing the i r efficacy. The social o r d e r that is l ooming on our h o r i z o n is based on k n o w l e d g e .

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.496
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.004

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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.292
Teacher spread0.262 · 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