Bibliographic record
Abstract
While the current scientonomic definition of authority delegation implicitly presupposes that epistemic agents accept expert judgments unconditionally, this assumption fails to capture a wide range of historical and contemporary epistemic practices. The paper proposes a revised typology that distinguishes unconditional authority delegation from conditional authority delegation and offers a general definition of authority delegation that subsumes both. Conditional authority delegation is characterized as a relation in which a delegating agent accepts expert answers to a question only if those answers satisfy some additional criteria that are part of the method employed by the delegating agent. The paper also proposes an indicator for identifying historical cases of conditional delegation. To show that cases of conditional authority delegation exist, three historical episodes are analyzed: the authentication of a disputed Monet painting by the Wildenstein Institute, the nineteenth-century debate between physicists and geologists over the age of the Earth, and the mid-twentieth-century reception of radioastronomical data by steady-state cosmologists. The paper concludes by outlining implications for future theoretical refinement and observational research in scientonomy.
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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 | 0.015 | 0.039 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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 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".