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Record W3107484652

Thomas Hobbes, Comedian

2020· article· en· W3107484652 on OpenAlexaff
Travis D. Smith

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Political Science Reviewer · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHatredContemptLEVIATHAN (cipher)LaughterHarmPoliticsReputationLawRacismSociologyPsychoanalysisCriminologyPolitical sciencePsychologySocial psychologyComputer security
DOInot available

Abstract

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Hobbes uses humor deliberately throughout Leviathan. He also says laughter reveals one’s opinion of their superiority in comparison to others, representing a sign of contempt and manifestation of hatred. The use of humor is therefore problematic in a political teaching, such as Hobbes’s, dedicated to combating hate and educating human beings to treat each other as equals. Hobbes deploys humor to criticize elites who do not deserve their reputation or station as well as to portray most people as readily misled. He criticizes humor in order to protect vulnerable people from the harm it does them, while using it to educate or flatter people who might be friendly to his efforts to rescue people from abuse. The eventual consequence is a humorless form of politics suited to the view that it is reasonable in this world to anticipate the manufacture of comical outcomes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.077

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.003
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.009

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 head0.112
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.184 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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