Digital Exam for Literacy
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the next 12.3 years
What is Digital Literacy? Over the past ten years I keep changing what I think the answer is. I just changed it again. We keep hearing about a mental health crisis out there, and suicides are way up, and education is going backwards. The American Legion magazine has an article about military recruiting is way down because young folks can't pass the ASVAB Test. Thats like the GED of the military, high score means brain surgeon low score means Rambo. Even Rambo now days has to be fairly intelligent these guys are hi-tech. Just as much as their counterparts back in the buildings drinking coffee.
Is it possible that what we call health is a psychological socio geopolitical economic cultural human social construct not based on well being in the form of our health? The modern Smartphone is being blamed for a slew of mental health problems especially in young people today. I can agree with that. What I'm suggesting is don't blame the phone. In fact, you should be using the phone to figure out the problem! The phone is not the problem.
The common wisdom is Social Media (the phone) has ruined society and made everyone ugly and stupid and hating on each other. Psychologist Author Jonathan Haidt says because of social media we now have a Red and Blue America that live in duelling realities. He fails to mention that we've always lived in dueling realities. Tell me when we haven't? It only "seemed" like we didn't. Jonathan Haidt says social media has "fractured" America. I would say America was always fractured. The fracture was healing. Then comes social media. It lifted the comfort curtain and let everyone see and hear what everyone else is saying and doing. This was like the invention of the radio and TV. It was that big. It was really fun and exciting. In the beginning. The good psychologist goes on in great detail explaining how big tech, politicians and the media made it all very profitable and essentially weaponized the algorithms. He nails it. I bet he can't wait until big AI gets here. Not!
He says it all started in 2009, 2010, 2014, or so. By 2015 it's on record a huge spike in diagnosed mental illness and depression. That is the exact time the smart phone reached a majority of US households - they were adoped faster than any other communications technology in human history. Screentime and poor mental health in the same time frame, a coincidence I think not.
The tech companies didn't know to do research on the mental health effects of their products on their customers. And geez ya don't want something like that written down somewhere.
On the other side nobody is teaching customers digital literacy. Do we just ban everything? Computer scientist Jaron Lanier says you should quit all social media dump everything. You'd think he could come up with a better idea than that considering he's the one who invented virutal reality. As of today virtual reality is more hazardous than social media. VR is not causing mental illness and depression because nobody wants to use it.
VR is too klunky and fake. They haven't figured out how to lure you into or sucker you into VR but when they do isn't it going to be like social media on steroids so I don't know what he's thinking. I think I do know what he's thinking, "VR is great, wonderful, it will help humankind in a revolution of intelligence." I completely agree with him, as long as the correct people are in charge. On that note let's talk about the "device" we do all use, the Smart Phone. The phone is not the problem, the internet is the problem. Your kids are idiots because of the internet, not the phone. You need to help kids not abandon them. When you ban the phone kids think you are the one who is clueless, just like we all did when our parents for the past 5 decades told us marijuana is satanic we all knew this was bullshit.
We didn't think our parents were bad we just assumed they were not up to modern education standards and or are just clueless. The phone should be a phone and the computer is a computer don't confuse that. Here's a NEWSFLASH: computers still work without the internet. Very few people know that now days. THAT"S the problem. If you suggested to a young person today the computer still works without the internet they would have no idea what that means. To them that's like a boat with no water. Not just kids, adults as well especially anyone over 60. We just take phones and computers for granted when today a third of the world still lives like it's 1890. They don't understand technology they believe in ghoasts and spirits. Nobody wants to admit this, it's too scary.
The SmartPhone is supposed to make you smarter not dumber. And dumber. The Laptop is supposed to make you super smart, not dumb as a rock. All the smartest people in the world know this. Are they predators? Are we Antelopes on a priarie filled with Lions and Tigers? They are in zero hurry to explain this to anybody. Half the people don't even know they don't know. It's like shooting Ducks in a barrel.
Jaron Lanier wants you to dump everything, Jonathan Haedt says stay off just until you're 18. The phone is the problem, but it's not the phone it's "information." Until we start teaching this properly kids do need to stay away until they are 18. The phone is a funnel of information, it's the messenger don't shoot the messenger. How people deal with information is the root of all the chaos and problems we have today. Can you blame us, we have a stone-age brain and suddenly we're all supposed to be Albert Einstein. Do you want to go backwards? No, there is no time back in history you want to go to. Especially if you're female, black, or a minority. It's very ugly back there.
People alive today, this is the first time in the history of the world everyone on the planet can have anywhere near the level of information that everyone else has. They all don't, and that's the "phase" we are going through right now. We kinda take it for granted but this world today is a magical time to be alive. In all of history. If you want to look at the bright side you could say this era of chaos is actually part of that healing process, maybe similar to when a business says they have growing pains. Bad problem but in a good way. America has growing pains. Let's calm down and just have a cup of coffee and think about all this without any anxiety.
You can skip to the Digital Literacy Exam, or you can rummage through the stuff below. It is information about information. It's good to know. Who knows what's out there! Not everything is measurable? Geospatial Health Psychology is about measuring and visualizing. Jeet Kune Do is about intercepting. Put them together and you got a wingdinger.
There are "extra" senses that humans are not in tune with. One of these we know as "magnetic fields." Animals can sense and use and navigate by the earths magnetic fields yet we look at theses animals and there is no organ no orifice, nothing can we find that facilitates this amazing function. We are totally clueless. Only certain animals can do this, the others don't go around saying they can. Only humans do that. If artificial intelligence tunes into this behavior before we get to it first it can spin us in a way we never been spun. A way that we won't know that we don't know. Are we locked in or locked out?
There could be a whole bunch of stuff out there that uses magnetic fields, particle waves or some other obscure range of signals that affect our organic arrangement.
(TMS) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. TMS uses targeted magnetic fields to stimulate specific areas of the brain. It is a FDA approved noninvasive treatment that is used to treat Depression.
Just as each science examines the behaviour of a phenomenon over space and time, each Geospatial case study is like a snapshot at a particular personal location at a place and time. Time is a temporal view of events, in that order. Yet all too often systematic reviews and meta-analyses do not examine factors related to place and time. — This omission is ironic, as many health and mental health phenomena cluster in space and time.
The good news is Geospatial approaches are increasing in frequency and sophistication. Since the 1980s, the role of neighbourhood and community factors in explaining health and disease has received renewed attention. Such as the experience of stigmatisation for minority groups, changes in weather patterns, local and broad economic trends, or even allostatic load due to all causes. Individual studies may have taken place in considerably different settings such that some locations facilitated larger effects and others smaller or even reversed effects studies on minorities' health. This geospatial aproach enables a more multi-dimensional view of health psychological phenomena.
The Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP) is a team of public health and geospatial science, technology, data visualization, and analysis experts. They have identified the Geospatial Determinants of Health (GDOH). The goal is to define the geospatial drivers of health with an emphasis on factors that vary by place (location). You could call it a roadmap to health. A SmartMap that promotes geospatial advances of the use of "place" in research and practice across the public health community, to include the public health curriculum of schools across the United States.
Should we try to protect and coddle everyone? Put a big bubble around them like we do with sex education? Should we just ban everything? Should we educate kids and teach everyone digital literacy?(digital literacy doesn't mean buy shit off the internet). Should we teach kids what self defense means? Should we show them what is health defense? I wouldn't wait around for the government to save you, I wouldn't wait for silicon valley either. You'll have your own kids before they get it right.
They have identified the Geospatial Determinants of Health. I have identified the Geospatial Health Psychology of the situation. Remember wherever you go is a part of you. It's written down on this page: www.TotalHealthDefense.com
By using data about conditions in communities "when and where" studies can be conducted. Meta-analyses can incorporate spatial or spatiotemporal factors. Spatiotemporal information helps to explain variation in study results.
This GIS (geospatial information systems) approach greatly increases the valuable feedback loop yet spatiotemporal and geospatial dimensions have not been widely used. Of the 142 articles published in Health Psychology Review through July 2015, none included the words 'geospatial' or 'spatiotemporal'; none used the word 'spatial' in relation to physical location; only 7 mentioned 'neighbourhood' and of these, only 2 used this concept extensively. It also appears quite rare for meta-analysts to link and associate spatiotemporal information to study results.
Health Psychology. How can you tell the difference between a racist and a moron? They both can say the exact same terrible things but each is coming from a different source on the map. How does that happen?
A recent meta-analysis examined the role of community-level prejudice of majority group members in relation to minorities. On average, these trials failed in communities with the most negative attitudes, whereas they had greater success in communities where everyone evaluated each other positively, especially for studies involving more vulnerable samples such as adolescents.
California has started a program called, "Media Literacy." They found that young people today have no idea what is real and what is fake. Media Literacy is a great thing. But that's not the bigger picture. Digital Literacy is the bigger picture. Media Literacy is about the problem Digital Literacy is about the "concept." The algorithm. Digital Literacy to me is How you deal with information. Lots of it. Nobody sees things the same way and it never mattered. Until now. How do you choose your source of information? Or maybe you don't maybe it chooses you? How do you prioritize it, how do you authenticate it, how you talk to your self about it is probably the most important priority. What you say frames your day.
All this fear of ChatGPT and SkyNet and AI robo bot monsters taking over humans is not the first problem we should be worrying about. The crux of the biscuit is the verification of authentication. The short answer is, trust. Forget about what's "real" worry about what and whom you can trust.
What is Digital Literacy? Is it googling something? Using eMail?
Navigate web pages? Filling out complicated Forms Online? Buying
things off Amazon? Using the Bank or airlines and hotels?
Those all are part of digital literacy but not the most important
thing we need to know. The good news is we don’t need a computer to
know this. Because we are looking at the algorithms not the content.
This evens the playing field. The algorithm of "convert"
things, any things. Converting things is what your brain does every
time you wake up. Who knows what it's doing when your sleeping.
Converting things is another way of saying Self
Communication.
The exercise in self communication
THE STRUCTURE OF BELIEF IN SELF AND THE HISTORY OF DIGITAL ILLITERACY
Facts vs Narratives.
Who owns the narrative?
Physical speed vs Cognitive speed.
Algorithms even the playing field.
WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION
The beliefs we have which increase our confidence, whether true or not all have the same power to get us what we want when the outcome depends on our own performance. This is why “facts” can lose their power in the arena of algorithms. Some people call algorithms "dog whistles." They could be any kind of whistle. They call it dog whistles because it works regardless of what content the dog thinks it is. Even more to the point every dog is a little different. And a cat is really different.
The world has been analog for 320 zillion years and now it is digital. The rules have changed. True truth is a new concept. We are in a Crisis of Reality
Facts vs Narratives.
MESSAGING-PARSING
I was working with NATO with many countries. We did exercises and they paired me up with a Turkish guy. Our job was go around
the room and make sure dozens of different languages, people, teams,
were doing okay on the computer systems. My Turkish partner was
cracking me up because he was very smart but his english was real
choppy. I would be trying to explain tech stuff to some guy from
Lithuania or wherever and he would brutally cut-to-chase on the guy
with his butchered English. He would say, "Everything is easy if you know
who to ask." I said hot damn that's the most profound thing I've heard
all week. All year. Ever.
The secret trick to AI Chat and AI Image Generators is HOW you ask it the question. I would say
"Everything is easy if you know how to ask the question" assuming you
know who to ask.
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Problem Well Stated Is Half Solved
This is what we need to teach kids in school. Don't just feed them a
bunch of stuff they are going to forget and call that education. We can't just teach what to learn we need to teach How to learn. If
you teach them how to read, and then teach them HOW to ask a question,
they will know how to learn anything and everything.
These AI tools are not exactly magic. Chat GPT has around 1 trillion connections. The human brain has around 100 trillion connections. I would not be so fast to say humans are doomed. Daniel Tammet can, from memory, recite Pi (3.141…) to the 22,514 decimal. This guy doesn't need a calculator to solve exponential math problems, "such as 27 to the 7th power -- that's 27 multiplied by itself seven times -- he'll come up with the answer, 10,460,353,203, in a few seconds." Humans use "analog" algorithms. The analog algorithms are eons more powerful than any digital algorithms. Right now humans and AI are both racing to find these analog algorithms. Who will get there first?
ChatGPT "picks a route" path through incomprehensibly large sets of data it scraped thus making it seems smart. It tries to guess how you are asking the question to try to please you. It goes one word at a time using millions or trillions of data points to find the next word. You can ask the same question again and get a variation of the answer as your query "swims" thru the vast data pool. It's impossible for us to track exactly which path it takes cuz it's just too much stuff in there. All we can do is get better and better in asking the questions. Our query.
We can view it as the AI
is trying to find stuff for you to please you, make you happy. The AI algorithm asks itself how good is this material I
just grabbed, which action should be next, and how good was the last
material. That algorithm is called, "recursive self improvement." It is a form of advancing exponentially. It comes right after the "self autonomy" page in
your Build My Own AI Robot at Home Kit instructions booklet.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A HUMAN?
In this clip Conan O'Brien and Patton Oswalt discuss what it means-
THE FUTURE OF AI / CONAN O'BRIEN NEEDS A FRIEND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68T2pWwKoy0
In martial arts the idea to implant stuff in your mind muscle memory
so that years later maybe after you stopped going to lessons and you
forgot a lot of it, your mind will dig it up all by itself. Some thug
might try to steal your Louis Vuitton bag and you beat him silly with
the bag it will all be over in 30 seconds and you won't even quite know what
you just did. You're mind grabbed whatever you had, no time to "think" if you have to think it's prolly gonna be too late.
Hunny you beat the daylights out of that crook with your
Louis V bag where did you learn that dear? Jus take credit and say you're a
badass woman.
The past 75 years is the first time in history the authentication and
verification of information has gone viral. It’s been democratized.
For everyone. its always been around but it was never democratized, for everyone, like it is today. Although many countires try to block their citizens from knowing it.
Knowing how to ask the questions is what digital literacy is. How to
operate a query. Having query experience is not mandatory but is
helpful, it’s like that boating sign, "Local Knowledge Required."
A problem well stated is halfway solved. One way to do this is use the
Master Keys that open up everything. All the locks. As an example,
"Cómo se dice esto en español? is Spanish, it means, "How do you say
this in Spanish?" If you know that one sentence you can just point at
things and get the answer. You’re using the language without learning
it. That one sentence is a master key that gets you thru THAT DAY by
pointing to any object or item you need to know and say.
A Master key is made out of an algorithm. You can make your own
algorithms you don’t need a computer. Algorithms are like little
recipes, like baking a cake. The recipe can be in any format or
language. Digital algorithms are in the computer, the organic
algorithms are in your head. Organic algorithms are much more powerful than digital algorithms. Digital is limited by ones and zeros, analog algorithms have no such imitations. The human brain has 100 trillion connections, organic, powerful, way way beyond our understanding. Right now. AI is busy backward engineering us. Voice Cloning is a reality. Today. Imagine getting a call from your boss and it's not really her? Voice cloning my gosh what's next will it steal the essence of my hit song from my new hit album?
When digital algorithms first arrived
they had nowhere to live so they were put onto organic formats. Like Punch
Cards, or Digital BetaCam tapes. The digital code is recorded onto the
analog tape. The Ones and Zeros cannot move, they are like painted on
canvas. Once hard drives were invented the Ones and Zeros lived in
there and could be adjusted manipulated, no longer frozen on a analog
canvas.
Computers are going the way of the record player everything jumped to
the phone now. The next format the Ones and Zeros will jump to is AI,
artificial intelligence.
As our world goes deeper into Ones and Zeros the definition of
endangerment changes. This is a problem because you can't invent laws
or make solutions to things that you don't know exist. That's why this
digital literacy exam is only good for 9.73 years.
CREATING ALGORITHMS ASKING QUESTIONS
How to create an algorithm is a algorithm itself. A recipe. How do you
measure the width of the gap in your cognitive dissonance? The gap is
the distance between perception and reality. We all have a level of
cognitive dissonance. You could call it our misalignment. Comedians
make fun of this, for a living. They have the uncanny ability to see
it stick out. They point it out, make us laugh, then we go home -and
do it. That's why it's funny. For some people it's not so funny.
The first question on the Digital Literacy Exam is, "What is your
conceptual continuity"? In other words what is your concept for going
through life? Let me give three common examples of this concept
called, "going through life."
A. Religion. Some people use their religion (or spiritual
equivalent) as their guiding light through life.
B. Don't even think about it. Some people just go through life trying hard but hardly ever think much about concepts and continuity.
C. There isn't any concept. Some people don't have any continuity they live moment to moment and everything is pretty much binary black and white, On or Off, good vs evil, etc.
The tricky thing about cognitive dissonance is the more you have the
more you think you don't have any. As the great Voltaire once said,
“If you wish to converse, define your terms.” This means defining your
terms makes all the difference in the world. In other words it's, "How
you talk to your self." Bruce Lee said “Honestly expressing
yourself... not lying to oneself... is very hard to do.” If you don't
know you're lying then it's not lies. You want to know.
This Digital Literacy Exam isn't really a exam. It's a Thought Experiment. it's really a cover for seeing your self expression. it's about your critical thinking and ability to
express your self honestly.
Every day now for better and worse we are all being.. ... not
manipulated but, we are being steered in directions without our knowledge,
or permission by algorithms. Big companies fight each other over who
can access our information. They will say it's for
a better experience or it's to help you find products and services.
That would be wonderful if that's all it was. And the cases where it
isn't it would be nice to inform us, and give us a cut of the profit
while your at it.
Being aware of algorithmic effects doesn't mean you should be
paranoid. Because you don't have time for that. This is
about getting along in the new social construct. Don't negate it,
navigate it. Don't fear it, steer it. The more you know about your
self the more you can protect your self. When you see something peel
back a few layers to look at why it's there and where it came from.
After awhile it becomes natural like peripheral vision. The
corporations are right it can be a better experience for you. Until it
isn't. It's all about them.
The Digital Literacy exam is at the bottom of the page. You can skip
to the exam or you can browse through some of the bonus Work Material
information right here:
WORK MATERIAL RESOURCE (Bonus)
Ask The Tubes, "What Is The Meaning Of Life." Ask the band ILIKETRAINS what
"The Truth" is.
COGNITIVE LITERACY AND CRITICAL THINKING
A dangerous symptom is present in the world today. It has largely
gone unnoticed by both the public and those who shape public policy.
This symptom has recently been exposed, thanks to financial literacy
statistics. According to the first-ever S&P Global FinLit Survey
by the World Bank, Gallup, and George Washington University, just
one-third of the world's population is financially literate.
Don't think of financial literacy as just about money or math skills.
Think of it as part of your health defense. Think of Financial
Literacy as your Task and "cognitive literacy" as your challenge.
Cognitive literacy is the language for critical thinking. How you
dress up the task determines its difficulty despite it being the same
challenge. Our Task is to intercept why we get separated from our
money.
Remember
when Bruce Lee did it in that one episode of Longstreet? Longstreet
was going to make a move, before he could hardly raise his arm to
make a fist Bruce Lee was on him subduing his arm Bruce said, "I
intercepted your emotional state." That is how you hack a human. You
intercept their network signals. Where are the signals?
In the past 10,000+ years our survival biology used a system of "not" seeing the world as it is, this accurately favored the
evolution of our survival against predators and our fitness. The coming digital millenia makes this tactic obsolete. We
need accuracy. We need some help with our intuition. The human "interface" is our mind,
it is a smokescreen that hides reality. This is why everyone has their
own little version of reality. There are many layers of divisions and
diversions in this smokescreen machine mainframe mind that we have as
our "interface" to the outside. You can disagree with the science of
the details none of that matters for what we need to concentrate on.
The good news is that you don't really have to know what you're doing. The Digital Literacy Exam is designed to get you to see more
priorities. Layers of priorities.
Everybody has basic irrational assumptions. The mind interprets events
unrealistically from an irrational belief system that
encourages unrealistic interpretations. This is fine, until you get on
a network that has zero trust security.
When you were born as a little baby you are afraid of everthing. Especailly Broccoli. Your parents do the best they can to calm you down. They explain that the movie in your head is the real one and its okay, the movie that is "outide there" is not real. Don't get mad at mom and dad. They do the best they can.
Become aware of making skewed distorted interpretations from
behavioral patterns that produce skewed distorted thinking. It goes in
a circle. The infamous cognitive loop. We can analyze behavior
patterns to backward engineer the identity of the skewed
interpretations by using geospatial data visualization with temporal
predictive link analysis. or, we could go to the Journal of Applied
Behavior Analysis Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
They claim humans are easy to fool.
This is how to identify distorted cognition's through a process of
evaluation and bio feedback to discriminate between our own thoughts
and reality. The key is to separate “your” self induced indulgences
from the murk of hedonistic temptations. What is reality? We need a
baseline.
Under the best of “normal” circumstance it is hard to monitor our
thoughts and get your hate straight and your love aligned. Get your
love optimized. Get your happy meter calibratorized. Don't sink the
ship. There are healthy negative emotions and unhealthy positive
emotions. Let’s remake our Baseline. It’s not supposed to be some
negative self schema's prone to making logical errors in thinking. The
farther off we are calibrated to a healthy baseline the more we focus
selectively on certain aspects of a situation while ignoring equally
relevant information.
We can monitor our thoughts and locate mal-adaptive assumptions. Are
faulty cognition's a cause or a consequence? Who knows, you don’t need
to go in the weeds on this stuff, just know it’s there. Because in the
world of zero trust you can’t be a flake. You might get eaten
alive.
The famous 1960's psychology experiment called, "The Wason Selection
Task" was designed to test how people think. In it the presentation
and the question, at first glance, lead you to jump to the wrong
conclusion. This was considered an accurate gauge of thought process.
For 20 years the Wason Selection Task tricked 80 and 90% of those whom
attempted it. It was bloody brilliant. Until it wasn't. In 1982 a
couple of research blokes called, Bullshit. They cleverly noticed that
How you "dress up" the question can act as obfuscation of the task.
They did experiments to prove it. They re-worded the question and
80-90% passed. Hmm. Magicians Penn and Teller do this for a living.
They call it, "misdirection." For our purposes let's call it,
"cognitive misdirection." Not in a negative way, in a loving way. For
health defense if we have to run one mile we need to know the real
starting and ending points, with no cognitive misdirection involved.
Bruce Lee said the same thing in a different way.
Speech is a social construct. Before speech nothing had a name. It
seems counter intuitive to think naming things is a form of
misdirection. That would suggest humans have unknowingly built a whole
world of cognitive misdirection surrounding us like a cocoon. Like the
Matrix. Philosopher Alan Watts explains, "we attach laws to nature
whereas nature has no laws, it is simply the way things behave." To be
modern and make things work we have to tag things as rules, laws,
principles. We made up metrics like clocks and measuring tapes to help
label things. This can be seen as Man-made cognitive misdirection
because not everybody agrees. Can everybody be right? You are free to
believe whatever you wish to believe. We have common law in an attempt
to get everyone on board with "modern" life. We have code law,
science, religion, culture, as well.
When Bruce Lee says, "clear the mind" he wants to remove the "static"
(cognitive misdirection) from a situation so he can see it clearly. He
said, "To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and
desire is to see it in it's own pristine simplicity." Bruce Lee was
all about speed. When your 5 senses give you data it doesn't go
directly to your mouth, it can actually be measured.
Signals that travel along an alpha motor neuron in the spinal cord,
the fastest such transmission in the human body, can be 270 mph.
Sensory receptors in the skin, which lack the speed-boosting
insulating layer called a myelin sheath, are among the slowest, at 1
mph. Smaller, unmyelinated fibers of the pain receptors travel at
speeds ranging from 1 to 4 mph. That’s quite a difference. Exact
speeds don't concern us, we just want to know they exist even though
you can't intercept something at 270mph.
From the moment humans invented speech they began a social construct
by labeling everything in sight according to how they envisioned it.
Thus was born Fake News. It never used to matter in the
analog world. It does now for our health defense that's why we need to
be able to spot it.
Consider the famous Turing Test when it asks can a computer fool a
human? At first this seemed like a reasonable question. Today it's not
worth asking because we know any cheap Walmart computer can fool half
the population. Did people get dumb? Did computers get smart? No. What
happen is massive cognitive misdirection is becoming visible. Truth is
clashing with it. On the news we hear the terms "Post Truth" and
"truth is going away." This is not true, it is the exact opposite.
More truth is coming every day it is raining down upon us like a
thunderstorm and is clashing with centuries of cognitive misdirection.
It's clashing with the "story" we told ourselves about how we think.
The invention of Education is only a hundred years old.
Alan Watts describes it as, "What we call the laws of nature are
simply observed regularities in the way things behave. And in order to
observe regularities you must observe things through something
regular.
We make the metaphysical dog wag the tail. We are ALL unique down to
the person.
Why use reverse conditionals instead of asking the question straight
up. It's called, "contraposition" it's basically unnecessary
double-speak. Example would be saying, if you don't wear a green shirt
you are not group A, instead of saying group A doesn't wear green
shirts. I can see using contraposition as way to be creative in your
prose. The point here is the way the question is asked becomes
roadblocks on your way to the solving task at hand hence the "dress up
the task" statement above. You don't need to understand contrapostion
but you do need to learn to spot it! People with power wield it as a
weapon against us all the time. Artificial Intelligence is currently
"learning how to do it" so we need to pay attention! It's just the
very first rung on the Ladder of "Super Intelligence" that Elon Musk
talks about. There's some more in-depth descriptions of it at the
bottom of this page.
One of your best weapons of Health Defense against "Contrapostion" and
many other hazards is standard critical thinking. Financial Literacy
as critical thinking.
Balancing a check book is a skill that requires critical thinking when
it's applied to a diet, a budget, security, health, having a family.
Knowledge is the new currency. The value of paper currency keeps going
down Knowledge value keeps going up. Never before in history has one
little nugget of knowledge been so powerful.
Knowledge is the new Oil.
That Global Financial Literacy survey finds that Only 57% Of Adults in
the U.S. are financially literate. This stuff has never been measured
before. In the analog world it never mattered. In a network it only
takes one person to sink the whole ship. On the Starship USS
Enterprise Captain Kirk let's AI enforce the rules. The ships
algorithm can purge and parse people. How do you know what to do?
Sometimes you know better you just want to take your chances. Other
times you are simply ignorant. Clueless. You get a warning. You get
warning signs.
The minimum level of perception is to at least know that you don't
know. That's when you really need that tip. The algorithms are
learning to tell who doesn't know. Spellchecckur Auto Correct already
knows. Let's let it know that we know. Let's start knowing, right
now.
Let's accelerate.
ACCELERATE THE INEVITABLE
Electric cars were inevitable. Digital Literacy is inevitable
and we need to all get a head start on it. We are all going to be on a
network. All networks have some type of "eco system" related to
authorization and authentication. The weaponization of that
authentication has already begun. It only grows forward, we can delay
it and slow it down but we can't stop it. Humans in general hate zero
trust.
What does it mean zero trust? It means the coming intersection
between the analog world and the networked world. This coming
intersection will happen before the so-called, "Singularity" and
SkyNet, and Star Wars. It's slowly happening now. The IT computer tech
people are already experiencing it. They call it zero-trust
networking. Zero trust is the civilian version where things are
not as harsh. Cognitive Fascism. The simple definition of zero
trust is that a decision must be made and we all have to stick to
it. Network Admin. This is traumatic.
Zero trust is a headache that's going to get worse. Zero trust
is when you have rules and laws and you squeeze out discretion.
Mandatory sentencing. That's what's coming. Recursive realignment. If
you told the networks to eliminate crime would things be so ugly we
can't stand it. This is inevitably coming.
The purpose of the Digital Literacy Exam is to accelerate the
inevitable that we don't know about. How can we accelerate it if we
don't know what it is? We can no longer wander around in this
cognitive fog like Mr. Magoo. We need to understand ourselves on
another level. The whole human race is going to get hacked.
Organically. We mistakenly think the big hack is about computerized
artificial intelligence robot machine wars etc. That's not where the
hack is going to be, it's going to be human brains who get hacked. The
National Enquirer has been hacking humans since 1970. It never
mattered back then, but now it does. This is a new chapter in the
history of miss-communication.
We are heading for a showdown. We live in cognitive ping pong. Over on one side is a belief that
everything is some form of predestination, controlled and guided and
already decided. On the far opposite side of that is we just make it
all up on the spot. So far we've been free to pick where we want to be
at all points in-between.
Jesus just left Chicago and he's bound for ,, New Orleans. Working
from one end to the other and all points in-between. Took a jog
through Mississippi. Well, muddy water turned to wine. Then out to
California through the forests and the pines. Oh, take me with You,
Jesus. You might not see him in person. But he'll see you just the
same. You don't have to worry. Because taking care of business is his
name. ZZ Top said that in 1973.
Today half the world population is online. When the other half gets
here (they’re coming fast) the entire world will be on a network and
the rules will be decided by the Network Admin. Any junior IT person
will tell you this. If you break the rules the Admin kicks you off the
network. To the IT people this is about complacency. The socio political racial religious cultural
gender economic stuff won’t matter. What can we do, maybe we should
tell the network admin to "be nice to everyone"? We've been trying to
do that ever since the internet was invented. The only reason we've
been getting away with it is because everyone is not yet on, a
network. When everyone in the world gets online will some countries
just break off with their own Internets and battle each other about
it? I would say that's not going to happen. And I would also say it
already is happening. It all leads to a head-on crash with Zero
trust. Why does it matter? It doesn't yet. That's why we want to
accelerate the inevitable.
The algorithms will begin to fix all the worlds problems. Why? Because
we told them to. When AlphaGoZero was told to win, that's what it did.
Don't get in it's way! At the showdown we need to be up to speed and
be there along side those algorithms that are told to win, or we
humans will get left behind and labeled as just one of the "problems"
to be swept up and filed away or worse. How long will we tell the
algorithms to wait for us to catch up? The farther apart humans are
from the algorithms the harder the crash against zero trust will
be. We can avoid a rough collision.
When the showdown gets here we need to be ready. We need Functional
Literacy.
We
Are Heading For A Showdown
She cried to the southern wind 'Bout a love that was sure to end. Every dream in her heart was gone. Headin' for a showdown. We all need to understand our selves regardless of all this folly
anyhow. The unconscious has your deep embedded auto-pilot activities
that keep you alive but you can still affect those things. Your
subconscious is all hidden but you can hack into that. Non-conscious
is subconscious Lite. Your preconscious is not present in
consciousness but it is capable of being recalled without encountering
any inner resistance or repression. You can effect and affect all
these things if you have patience and learn how to do it and what to
look for. This is what Allan Watts meant when he said learn all of it
and then throw it all away. Bruce Lee said something similar so have
many others. I never said it, what I said is learn it all before
somebody else does. I said learn YOU before somebody else does.
The mechanism that generates the 95% cognitive activity that we don’t
know about was made by our behavior over our lifetime. It’s like we
created this control panel that secretly controls us, but we created
the controls so actually we are in control. We just don’t know it. We
need Total Health Defense.
This whole process is happening now as we speak. It's automated as efficiency more than it is controlled by some people or some company. We are being sorted
separated repatriated. These super massive large systems are feeling
us out right now. To see who has Functional Literacy about zero
trust. The further we humans fall behind the harder we will crash
into Zero trust. It is not a purposely built corporate entity, it
is a sum total of continuously improving algorithms. It's known as
"Recursive Self Improvement." Humans self improving thru the ages is
RECURSIVE SELF IMPROVEMENT.
Windows OS has 60 million lines of code. Google total services has 2.5
billion lines of code and 25,000 engineers in charge of wrangling that
code. Sure they can go in fix a block of code, but who knows what is
going on with the sum total of billions of lines of code that create
new code than make more code that interact with a multitude of outside
code doing unplanned things? Look what happen at the Facebook
Laboratory, it was no Monster Mash it was Bamboozle.
Mark Zuckerburg had a debate on YouTube with Elon Musk. Mark said AI
will be our friend and help us. Elon said AI is not necessarily our
friend it has no conscious. AI may decide we are in the way. We should create laws and rules now before it fully gets here. Meanwhile back at the Facebook AI Lab. They gave AI's a collaborative project to come up with new concepts. The AI's had reverted into a
unintelligible method of communicating with each other. The
technicians freaked out and pulled the plug! They plug it back in, and
told the AI's to SPEAK ONLY ENGLISH. This seems silly, because how
would we ever know if the AI's just cooked up a "code" using words in
english?
It's not the end of the world. All we humans have to do is simply keep
up with the bare minimums of zero trust. AI will have no humanity
when it comes to kicking people off the network. We can buy more time
if we don't run everything into the ground.
Who is saying nothing is wrong, nothing to
see, move along, the whole planet is fine. If you sit in a news silo,
your brain has been hacked. You have to train your peripheral vision.
This exam is supposed to test your ability.
This Exam seeks to expose the differences between the analog age and
the digital age. The oversimplification is the receding analog Opt-In
era is receding to the new digital Opt-Out world. This means if you do
nothing -you can get screwed. In the analog world if you didn't really
know what was going on you would still generally be okay. Those days
are coming to an end. Houston you will not be okay.
This test is important only because it's about the entire fate of
humanity. The Digital Literacy Exam is designed to get you to
understand human organic analog algorithms. In 2019 as smart as humans
are we are still not very good at our own selves. It never mattered in
the analog world. It does now. Today relatively simple computer
algorithms can outsmart humans. The Turing Test asks can a computer
outwit a Human. Today any cheap Walmart computer outsmarts millions.
Imagine what will happen when we are up against proven organic analog
human based recursive self improving algorithms being wielded at us
from a network admin? Like the algorithms that got you at the Used Car
Sales Lot. You ever watch the old married couple that's been together
for 70 years and the woman can finish the man's sentences. She knows
what he's going to think BEFORE he does. She hacked her husband. She
intercepted his mind body algorithms.
Remember when Bruce Lee did it in that one episode of Longstreet,
before Longstreet could hardly raise his arm to make a fist Bruce Lee
was on him subduing his arm Bruce said, "I intercepted your emotional
state." That is how you hack a human. You intercept their network
signals.
Take this Pre Exam and see how you do.
Digital Literacy Pre Test
If you pass this you don't
need to take the Full Exam.
You can get your digital literacy certificate oh joy.
What is your conceptual
continuity?
What is the difference between code and algorithm?
Why did Netscape disappear?
What percentage of the American public is in the stock market?
USA is ranked 14th in financial literacy, what percentage of US
adults are considered financially literate?
Have you heard of President Obama's Digital Literacy website at the
White House? Why not?
What is the definition of Globalization and when did it start?
Can digital files live on analog media?
How long were computers around before the internet was invented?
When were file extensions invented and why does Microsoft hide them?
Why does Microsoft hide the Folders and Drives?
What is the difference between Digital and Digitization?
What is a Blockchain?
What is the definition of health?
What is MLM (multi level marketing) and is it legal?
What percentage of the world is Online?
What is hmtl5 ?
Why are so many internet business models switching from Opt-In to
Opt-Out?
What percentage of the internet is just bots on bots?
What is the difference between hosting your website and hosting your
domain name?
Until very recently why were Macs so much safer than PCs?
Why did Microsoft Outsource Security all this time up until very
recently?
Why did Microsoft wait so long to attempt to cleanup its App Store?
Why is Apple so expensive and PC's so much cheaper?
Is it okay for a Salesman to make a offer, promises, he can not
keep?
What is a contraposition?
If a Salesman lies about his capabilities to get the Sale, and
somehow makes good on the deal, is that okay?
Can humans survive in a zero trust world?
THE END
This concludes the draft v0264 of the Digital Literacy Pre Test. Stay tuned for your score.
To further demonstrate financial literacy, even the same exact "dress
up" is looked at a little differently, by every single person. We are
ALL unique down to the person. We all have a different Baseline.
Society can not give all of us our own personal Legal System that fits
our personal version of reality that we each think is "normal."
Honestly how many people go to the Bar and have ONE drink? We pretend
they all do. In rural towns there is no Uber or Taxi cabs or local
train. We have country rules and city rules. Can you imagine some
force came in and made every state on zero trust IT network protocol? I think thats eventually what is coming, to every state.
Anthropology, Psychology, mental health and most Philosophy is written
as if we are all on the same baseline. Our health, it's different for
each person.
"Contraposition" means the inference drawn from a proposition by
negating its terms and changing their order, as by inferring “Not B
implies not A” from “A implies B.”
You know those irritating "puzzles" where they take a simple question
and use reverse conditionals instead of asking the question straight
up! They mislead you because it's two puzzles in one. First is
unraveling the way the question is asked i.e. the reverse conditional
(contraposition) and secondly is the actual task at hand. Magicians
use this type of thing as a misdirection technique. What about the
tricks to get you to buy stuff you don't need. It's different in
Mathematics and in Philosophy but at the end of the day it's all
cognitive science.
That was the mathematics version, it's important you take the pain of
looking at the Contraposition in Philosophy just so you can tell when
you are being swindled by the coming AI. You don't need to understand
this, just know that it is double-talk using Philosophy. The inference
of Contraposition is distinct from mathematics. The 3 steps:
1.) write the original proposition and then obvert (show a different
side) the original proposition.
2.) Take the newly formed obversion and convert by switching places of
the predicates and subjects (keeping the negation if any) and
3.) finally obverting the newly formed conversion from the previous
step.
Here is the original Wason Selection Task. This is not the best
example of a Contraposition but it is the same concept. Just as the
two gentlemen had demonstrated in 1982.
80 and 90% of the subjects chose two cards to flip over the 8 and the
blue. This is wrong. You only need to flip one card, the 8. The
conditional statement only SET the color with the numbers on the
front. You can verify it with the 8's face and back but not by just
the blue back. Why is this important?
How you dress up the cognitivity task determines its level of
comprehension despite it being the same challenge.
How
you dress up the cognitivity task determines its misunderstanding
despite it being the same challenge. In government, in
religion, in war, many other areas, anywhere it can be gotten away
with.
