Abstract Most people assume that skill and value travel together: a better copy is a better thing. For forgeries the relation runs the other way. A clumsy forger is caught within a season, and the loss is one picture. Van Meegeren’s forgeries were bought by museums, entered the catalogues and shaped the scholarship on...
José Caetano de Mattos· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Abstract The twentieth century’s communist states did not present themselves as tyrannies. They presented themselves as the fulfilment of every hope of human liberation. They had constitutions that guaranteed freedom of speech, elections with near-unanimous results, councils in the name of the workers, courts in the na...
José Caetano de Mattos· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Abstract Chomsky built two great things and never joined them. In linguistics, he argued that humans are born with a language faculty — and he won that argument by refusing to accept a named capacity as an explanation. In politics, he argued that authority must justify itself because humans have an instinct for freedom...
José Caetano de Mattos· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Abstract Chomsky built two great things and never joined them. In linguistics, he argued that humans are born with a language faculty — and he won that argument by refusing to accept a named capacity as an explanation. In politics, he argued that authority must justify itself because humans have an instinct for freedom...
José Caetano de Mattos· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Abstract Four papers of this programme — on metrics, reward models, constitutions, and schools — reached the same prohibition without noticing they agreed: a virtue detector must never enter the loop that acts on the measured. This paper states the object they were touching from four sides. An agent originates an act....
José Caetano de Mattos· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
Abstract Four papers of this programme — on metrics, reward models, constitutions, and schools — reached the same prohibition without noticing they agreed: a virtue detector must never enter the loop that acts on the measured. This paper states the object they were touching from four sides. An agent originates an act....
José Caetano de Mattos· Zenodo (CERN European Organi...· 0 citations
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