Do as I say, Not as I do
How to get an edge over 99.9% of population
Do as I Say, Not as I Do How to get an edge over 99.9% of the population
Look at this X thread from Isabel Brown about her AP History textbook, which has been shared 10.5 million times.
Here is a screenshot of the video
Obama is a right-wing authoritarian. Clinton and Bush are indistinguishable.
For our youngest and brightest, just teach them life and history with a vector.
But here’s the question nobody’s asking: categorized by what?
What they said?
Or what they did?
Because most of what ends up on a vector is a soundbite, not a biography.
And what does this accomplish for the future voters of this nation? When they enter the workforce, will they lump colleagues and employees into the same cute little vectors? Will every decision come down to Good/Bad instead of Productive/Wasteful?
That’s not education. That’s metadata.
Everything is metadata now.
We don’t read the fine print. We get our understanding through circumstantial information
That is, for example, footprints in the snow, a geolocation ping on a phone. We don’t know where he went, but the evidence points to it.
That’s why social media is the most powerful force in modern warfare. Unlimited threads. Instantly digestible. No attention span required.
And that’s exactly how the propaganda is being played out right now with Iran.
A case in point
The old media is blacking out anything detrimental to the regime’s ideology
flattening the playing field between the largest economy and military in human history and a theocracy installed in 1979 based on an ideology that runs directly against human nature.
Per Google, here is the Iranian regime’s belief system:
The core beliefs of the Iranian regime revolve around the absolute rule of the Supreme Leader (Velayat-e Faqih), strict enforcement of Islamic law, and a “holy mission” to export the 1979 revolution. Anti-Western sentiment, Islamic global dominance, resistance to foreign influence, and preparation for the return of the Mahdi.
Got that?
Now, tell me if that belief is actually believed by the leadershipt that has its citizens, not their children, as human shields at key infrastructures in Iran
The son of Masoumeh Ebtekar
one of the Iranians who helped hold 52 American hostages,
is living in luxury in Los Angeles and teaching kids.
The grandniece of Qasem Soleimani was living a lavish life in the USA while her mother actively promoted the Iranian regime.
And the elite are probably doing it tax free.
Do as I say. Not as I do.
So back to vectors
That is how AI works
Feed it flattened inputs, get flattened outputs.
Garbage in, garbage in forever —> because the model just keeps training on itself.
So why would an AP class be any different?
Here’s the edge I’m leaving you with.
Don’t read the headline.
Don’t pigeonhole.
Don’t put people on a vector before you understand the situation they were operating in.
Step into another man’s shoes. Or his galesh.
While everything is being played out in dramatic, theatrical form, study a slice of history. Not the whole thing. A slice. Enough to gain a real perspective on decision-making.
That’s the difference between metadata and understanding.
One gives you a dot on a chart.
The other gives you an edge.