Bibliographic record
Abstract
Robert Latimer is a Canadian canola farmer who was convicted of second-degree murder for killing his quadriplegic daughter. His case provides an illuminating window which explores Zizek's Lacanian ethics. During her delivery, Latimer's daughter Tracy suffered from an interruption in her oxygen supply, which left her with a severe case of cerebral palsy. Latimer has engaged in a concerted and passionate, if undiplomatic, letter writing campaign to the supreme court of Canada. According to Kant, ethical action meets the criterion that it be expressed in the form of a maxim applicable to all situations and circumstances. The act can never be translated into a universal maxim. By definition, it cannot be universalized within the socio-symbolic terms whose inconsistency the act's performance, for this reason, will expose. From Zizek's Lacanian perspective, the very fact that no rationalization of Latimer's act is amenable to translation into a new, universal legal or ethical principle actually serves as evidence of its inherently ethical nature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.059 | 0.014 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".