Talking Coins and Thinking Smoke-Jacks: Satirizing Materialism in Gildon and Sterne
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Abstract
Both Charles Gildon and Laurence Sterne, authors associated with libertine ideas early in their careers, later used their fiction to distance themselves from materialist philosophy, creating influential characters in the process. Gildon satirized materialism by bringing coins to life in his object narrative The Golden Spy, while Sterne's method was to reduce the humanity of characters such as Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy to the level of hobby-horses and smoke-jacks. Together, these two disparate examples reveal the dangerousness of materialist ideas at this time as well as the cultural pervasiveness of materialist thinking in eighteenth-century Britain, as represented in canonical and non-canonical works.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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