Tensions on Erraid: How the Need for "Human Sustainability" Challenges an Intentional Spiritual Community
Bibliographic record
Abstract
K: Have you, uh, you were just saying that you were experiencing something, do you want to describe that a bit more when you're in… C: In the zone… K: Yeah, if you can, sometimes these things… C: Um, yeah, well I had a little bit today on the walk, we went down to Belfour Bay [a beautiful spot on Erraid], and Angeline's boots had holes in them, so we just sat down and didn't trudge through the water, and I just, you know it had a little bit of exercise outdoors, I sat down on this rock, and I could just…sigh…I relaxed, you know.And I could smell the smells, and feel the breeze, and hear the waves, and it was all so beautiful, it took me out of myself.Which was lovely.Um, what's the question?(laughter) K [very curious now]: When you're in the zone, what does it feel like?C: It feels serene, it feels relaxed, it feels like the chatter in my head is somewhere else, and that I am in touch with…When I am in touch with something that's greater than myself, I feel calm and clear, centered, confident, and there's just no bullshit.So for your interview, there's no interference from other things.[Laughter from both of us] This was not the first time (nor the last time) I heard about experiences like these on Erraid.I got the sense that there was this great optimism and potential that seemed to emanate from both short-term and long-term guests.Our interview continued and I asked Charlotte about the potential of intentional communities: were they a decent alternative to the nuclear family?She responded, C: I don't think we're the only ones who need an alternative to the nuclear family.K: What might be the pros and cons [of intentional community]?C: I mean this opens a whole range of discussions about what society is, and…you know…just a huge hour long rant… (laughter).The short answer is yes I think people living in intentional community whether we succeed or fail and in what ways we succeed or fail, we're attempting something else, and that's growth, so that's good.And I think whether or not they…more and more people in the world end up in intentional communities or not, maybe, they're
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.018 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.040 | 0.046 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.022 | 0.021 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.040 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".