Live Not by Post-Truth : An Uncanny American Fascination with Eastern European Dissent
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Contemporary contestations of truth have led some to diagnose our age as one of "post-truth".In her 2017 essay, Marci Shore -a US historian who has recently fled the Trump administration for Canada -remembers the words of the Czech dissident and later president, Vclav Havel: "Live in truth".1This time, however, this dictum is not used as a defence against omnipresent "communist lies", but rather as an anchor in the era of "post-truth", supposedly dominated by the lies of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.On the other side of the political spectrum, Rod Dreher, a US columnist and a writer with links to the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based think tank serving the transnational neoconservative network, invokes the spirit of the Eastern European dissent in his 2020 book Live Not by Lies.2 Dreher turns to Havel's concept of a life in truth as an antidote to the "progressivism" of contemporary liberal elites whose "soft totalitarianism" of social justice supposedly denies the existence of objective truth in favour of dissecting power relations.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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