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A midnight coterie of transcendent fauna

2023· book-chapter· en· W4384939896 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInnovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnthropoceneEnvironmental ethicsHumanityPaceHistoryEcologyGeographyPolitical scienceBiologyPhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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Abstract Interweaves the prevailing themes from throughout the book in a forward-looking way. Considers the idea of entire communities of species shaped with the aid of genetic welding. Contrasts creation of new and extraordinary species in the Anthropocene with drastic environmental interventions like solar geoengineering to manage climate change. Revisits ideas about evolutionary engineering in the wild as domesticating nature, creating biological curiosities, and as a societal loss of innocence. Considers the weapons that animals have to defend themselves, including examples from jellyfish, poison birds, wasp stings, and pain-insensitive grasshopper mice. Concludes that humanity will continue to alter evolution’s path across our planet, while withholding advocacy for accelerating the pace of evolution with genetic welding, and promises that there is more change to come.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.781
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.281 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it