Moving Between Hope and Pessimism: Failure, Death and “Fuck-lt”
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Why are we failing the environment and our ethico-ontological relationships? I engage Anthropocene studies scholars (for example, Chakrabarty), geologists, environmental-ontologists (for example, Arianne François Conty) to understand human arguments for a hopeful future. While some argue hope, we are continually reminded, by the very scholars giving us hope, that we are failing. I argue an ontological repositioning as a means of saying “fuck-it” in the face of death in order to accept human failure as a positive movement out of the shadow of the nihilistic eternal recurrence of hope. Turning to Arthur Kroker and Heidegger, we can understand why hope as a product of the will can never be anything but a “will of will:” aimlessness. Jairus Grove’s work on political pessimism gives us a frame of reference for turning to do otherwise. I derive this project from Thom van Dooren’s question: “Should we rape the Whooping Cranes to save them from extinction?”
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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