Degeneracy, Criminal Behavior, and Looping
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter was written for a workshop whose stated topic was criminal behavior. Crime and criminals have been with us always. The idea of criminal behavior has not. In an unproblematic sense of the words, you can engage in criminal behavior without committing a crime. The burglar assembles the tools of his trade and sets out, mask in hand – criminal behavior, we'd unreflectively say – but he falls into bad company on the way, drinks too much, and becomes too drowsy to burgle the mansion. But, of course, that is not what is meant when talk of crime is replaced by a discussion of criminal behavior. We are supposed to think of a tendency or disposition to behave in a certain way. Crimes, we are to imagine, are committed not just (tautologically) by people who behave in a criminal way but by those with a propensity for criminal behavior. In simple statistical modeling, we find the expression "criminal behavior" meaning no more than criminal acts – offences against the criminal law – of any type: embezzlement, burglary, assault, rape, murder, bank card fraud (e.g., Rowe, Osgood, and Nicewander 1990). In that literature it appears that "acts" could be substituted for "behavior" without change of intended meaning. (My burglar who fell asleep before committing an offence did not engage in criminal behavior.) But in sociological, psychological, and genetic work, the word "behavior" is treated more seriously. Most often violent criminal behavior is in view, and not, for example, bank card fraud.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 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 it