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A Road Toward Reflective Normative Agents

2023· article· en· W4389576403 on OpenAlexaff
Nathan Lloyd

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLogic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNormativeComputer sciencePolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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An ‘Interdisciplinary Frontier’ of norm research has brought forward new theories and evidence that describe the conditions required for norms to be measured, represented, spread, and changed. These inform the requirements for a normative agent with mental representations, able to reason about models of self, others, environment, and society. Recent Socio-Cognitive theories of reflection have highlighted the need for high-level reasoning processes to assess whether one's actions are congruent with prevailing norms and to reason about the legitimacy of the norm, which may motivate intentional transgression. Agents lacking these capacities engage merely in passive norm following or compliance, unable to explore the richness of social constructivism. In contrast, my research proposes reflective normative agents that utilize cognitive abilities to decide whether to conform, transgress, or change the rules of their institutions autonomously and collectively.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.042
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.065
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.224

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0420.065
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.034
Scholarly communication0.0160.027
Open science0.0040.010
Research integrity0.0090.013
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.055
GPT teacher head0.312
Teacher spread0.257 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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