Robo Ludens: A Playful Conception of the Social
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper explores the foundational role of play in the constitution of the social, showing a way for considering play not merely as a children’s pastime or simply unproductive and pleasurable activity, but a critical component of social relationality and agency. Drawing on anthropological and sociological perspectives, the paper follows an alternative to existing approaches in social robotics, and proposes a conception of ‘Robo Ludens’ through a discussion of play as an attitude that is fundamental to emergence of sociality (Huizinga, 1949), and thus prepare a way for social robotics to explore how to make robots compellingly social. The paper considers play’s inherent ability to invoke indeterminacy (Malaby, 2009), and its facilitation of metacommunication amongst actors that ultimately facilitate their agency and socialization in a given environment (Bateson, 1955). Then a robotic design paradigm proposed by Ralf Der and Georg Martius (2012) is given as an example of how searching for playful attitudes in robots creates dynamic systems that playfully learn and socialize into their environment.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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