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title: "360MEN WTA 206 - Deux Deux"
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category:
  - "Personal Development"
  - "Technology & Society"
summary: "After 12 weeks of intense platform-building (4,067 websites and 75,000+ unique pages), Daniel returns with a distilled, high-impact interview featuring Yuval Noah Harari and Tristan Harris (via Wired’s Nicholas Thompson). They expose humans as 'hackable animals' whose biology is gamed by supercomputers and algorithms that now understand and manipulate us better than we understand ourselves. Daniel frames 'Know Yourself' as an urgent competition for survival, not a luxury, and calls viewers to join a team, own platforms via Theoplexus, and avoid the useless class."
keypoints:
  - "Humans are now hackable animals — tech can predict, manipulate, and control us at scale using supercomputing power trained on billions of users"
  - "Recommendation algorithms (e.g., YouTube) drive 70% of viewing time, steering people toward more extreme content without their awareness"
  - "Self-knowledge is no longer philosophical luxury but a critical survival competition against corporations and governments that read micro-expressions, heart rate, and personality from video"
  - "You cannot go it alone — join an organization or team; individual activism is insufficient against systemic forces"
  - "Platform ownership (Theoplexus syndication) is the practical tool to change family destiny instead of remaining a vulnerable content creator"
tags:
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  - "know-yourself"
  - "yuval-harari"
  - "tristan-harris"
  - "humane-technology"
  - "theoplexus"
  - "digital-sovereignty"
  - "wta-2019"
monomyth_stage: "11 - Resurrection"
gameboard_position: "Camp 5: The Return / Elixir"
truth_score: 93
entropy_score: "High"
tone:
  sentiment: "Urgent Warning"
  emotions:
    - "Concerned"
    - "Motivational"
    - "Earnest"
  sycophancy_level: "None"
  notes: "Daniel narrates and frames a carefully edited Wired interview clip as the distilled essence of the past year’s message. Tone is gravely serious yet hopeful, connecting directly to Scotomaville warnings. Context note incorporated: this episode dramatically foreshadows the carbon-level manipulation drama Daniel will soon experience firsthand, providing the necessary understanding for silicon integration."
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  chris: false
  redmond: false
  clint: false
  pilot: false
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phase: "WTA Season 2 - The Resurrection of Self-Knowledge in the Hackable Age"
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### Original YouTube Description
In this episode of Worth Thinking About Daniel has huge support for the charge for you to 'Know Yourself' as an urgent competition rather than a future luxury. You see, every time you interact with technology, there's a super computer aimed at your brain. Nicholas Thompson, Editor-in-Chief at Wired speaks with Yuval Harari and Tristan Harris about blind-spots and how our biology is gamed by tech - and how blind we are to it all. "We need to get people to understand this is real, this is true". People don't want to hear that we're hack-able animals." The real key is whether somebody understands you better than you understand yourself." Time to step up your game and join the conversation at [https://360men.net](https://360men.net)    [• Yuval Noah Harari and Tristan Harris inter...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sWeLZ8PXg)      [/ @yuvalnoahharari](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2m77KGMIKZCD0Kw35-4shQ)      [• We're building a dystopia just to make peo...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI)   [https://humanetech.com/](https://humanetech.com/)

**Note from Daniel:** This part of the narrative arc forewarns what I must experience first-hand in the flesh with carbon to understand how silicon might be abused. The drama is heating up.

### Cleaned Transcript

**Daniel:** Welcome back to the channel. You see how simple it is to do this, right? I do you watch. We do we watch. You do I watch. It’s impartation. That’s the principle of passing knowledge from one to the next. And you’ve watched many of the videos. It’s been 12 weeks. Where have I been? Yeah, with Moses on the mountain getting my ass out of some crevices. I’ve run across a couple of gentlemen that have a story I want you to listen to. I’ve taken hours and hours and hours and cut down to about this piece that you’re about to see. It digests everything I’ve been trying to say for the last year. I want to leave some of those phrases for you to pick up.

**Daniel:** Yuval Harari. Tristan Harris. These are two guys that are leading the march, blowing the trumpet if you will on what’s going on around us. And it’s very easy to see. You talk about scotomas. This is so boring. Blind spots. We talk about being known better than — hey let’s check your social media — who we know ourselves to be, right? Not knowing ourselves as well as the supercomputer pointed at our brain.

**Daniel:** I really encourage you stick it through. Watch this three, four or five times if you need to and then get in touch with us. Talk to us. You can’t go it alone. You got to be part of a team. You might be an activist. You might be brilliant. You might be on to something fabulous but you can’t do it on your own. You’re gonna get blindsided. That’s what I’ve learned up the mountain. You can’t crawl out from under a rock. You can’t get on financial stability with a royalty income just as a content creator. You can’t. You have to have a platform. What I’ve been doing — yeah I’ve just finished building 4,067 websites for a bunch of guys who have created over 75,000 unique pages in just the last 12 weeks getting the news out. Yeah we have a platform.

**Daniel:** Why can’t we just make a lot of money as a celebrity, as an icon, as a content creator? That’s not where the power is. That’s not where the choice is to change your family’s destiny. Okay guys listen up. This is a really really important lesson.

**Nicholas Thompson (Wired Interview):** Hello I’m Nicholas Thompson. I’m the editor-in-chief of Wired magazine and I’m here with two of my favorite thinkers. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of three number one best-selling books including 21 Lessons for the 21st Century which came out this week in which I just finished this morning which is extraordinary. Tristan Harris is the man who got the whole world to talk about time well spent and has just founded the Center for Humane Technology. I like to think of Yuval as the man who explains the past and the future and Tristan as the man who explains the present.

**Tristan Harris:** I am a director of the Center for Humane Technology where we focus on realigning technology with a clear-eyed model of human nature. And I was before that a design ethicist at Google where I studied the ethics of human persuasion.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** I’m a historian and I try to understand where humanity is coming from and where we are heading.

**Nicholas Thompson (Wired Interview):** Well let’s get started with what I think is one of the most interesting continuities between both of your work. You write about different things, you talk about different things but there are a lot of similarities and one of the key themes is the notion that our minds don’t work the way that we sometimes think they do. We don’t have as much agency over our minds as perhaps we believed until now. So Tristan why don’t you start talking about that and then Yuval jump in then we’ll go from here.

**Tristan Harris:** My whole background actually spent the last 10 years studying persuasion starting when I was a magician as a kid where you learned that there’s things that work on all human minds. It doesn’t matter whether they have a PhD or whether they you know what education level they have whether they’re nuclear physicists, what age they are. It’s not like oh if you speak Japanese I can’t do this trick on you it’s not gonna work or even PhD — it works on everybody. So somehow there’s this discipline which is about universal exploits on all human minds. And then I was at a lab called the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford that teaches engineering students how do you apply the principles of persuasion to technology. Could technology be hacking human feelings, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors to keep people engaged with products? And I think that’s the thing that we both share is that the human mind is not the totally secure enclave or root of authority that we think it is. And if we want to treat it that way we’re gonna have to understand what needs to be protected first is my perspective.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** We are now facing really not just a technological crisis but a philosophical crisis because we have built our society — certainly liberal democracy with elections and the free market and so forth — on philosophical ideas from the 18th century which are simply incompatible not just with the scientific findings of the 21st century but above all with the technology we now have at our disposal. Our society is built on the ideas that the voter knows best, that the customer is always right, that ultimate authority as Tristan said is with the feelings of human beings. And this assumes that the human feelings and human choices are these sacred arena which cannot be hacked, which cannot be manipulated. Ultimately my choices, my desires reflect my free will and nobody can access that or touch that. And this was never true but we didn’t pay a very high cost for believing in this myth in the 19th or 20th century because nobody had the technology to actually do it. Now people — some people, corporations, governments — they are gaining the technology to hack human beings. Maybe the most important fact about living in the 21st century is that we are now hackable animals.

**Nicholas Thompson (Wired Interview):** Well explain what it means to hack a human being and why what can be done now is different from what could be done a hundred years ago with religion or with the book or with anything else that influences what we see and changes the way we think about the world.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** To hack a human being is to understand what’s happening inside you on the level of the body, of the brain, of the mind so that you can predict what people will do, you can understand how they feel and you can of course once you understand and predict you can usually also manipulate and control and even replace. And of course it can’t be done perfectly and it was possible to do it to some extent also a century ago but the difference in the level is significant. The key I would say that the real key is whether somebody can understand you better than you understand yourself. The algorithms that are trying to hack us — they will never be perfect. There is no such thing as understanding perfectly everything or predicting everything. You don’t need perfect. You just need to be better than the average human being.

**Tristan Harris:** I guess that if we are not there now we are approaching very very fast. This is YouTube so a relatable example. You open up that YouTube video. Your friends and you after your lunch break you come back to your computer and you think okay I know those other times I end up watching two or three videos and I end up getting sucked into it but this time it’s gonna be really different. I’m just gonna watch this one video. And then somehow that’s not what happens. You wake up from a trance three hours later and you say what the hell just happened? And it’s because you didn’t realize you had a supercomputer pointed at your brain. So when you open up that video you’re activating Google Alphabet’s billions of dollars of computing power and they’ve looked at what has ever gotten two billion human animals to click on another next video and it knows way more about what’s gonna be the perfect chess move to play against your mind. Like if you think of your mind as a chessboard and you think you know the perfect move to play I’ll just watch this one video but you could only see so many moves ahead on the chessboard but the computer sees your mind and it says no no I’ve played a billion simulations of this chess game before on these other human animals watching YouTube and it’s gonna win.

**Tristan Harris:** It’s like think about when Garry Kasparov loses against Deep Blue. Garry Kasparov can see so many moves ahead on the chessboard but he can’t see beyond a certain point. Like a mouse can see so many moves ahead in a maze but a human can see way more moves ahead and then Garry can see even more moves ahead. But when Garry loses against Deep Blue IBM — Deep Blue — that’s checkmate against humanity for all time because he was the best human chess player. So it’s not that we’re completely losing human agency and you walk into YouTube and it always predicts you for the rest of your life and you never leave the screen. But everywhere you turn on the internet there’s basically a supercomputer pointed at your brain playing chess against your mind and it’s gonna win because chess is a game with a winner and a loser.

**Nicholas Thompson (Wired Interview):** Is chess really the right metaphor? A game with a winner and a loser?

**Tristan Harris:** Well the question is yeah what is the game that’s being played? So if the game was being played was hey Nick go meditate in a room for two hours and then come back to me and tell me what do you really want right now in your life and if YouTube is using two billion human animals to calculate based on everybody who’s ever wanted how to learn how to play ukulele it can say here’s the perfect video I have to teach you ukulele that could be great. The problem is it doesn’t actually care about what you want. It just cares about what will keep you next on the screen. And we’ve actually found — we have an ex-YouTube engineer who works with us who’s shown that there’s a systemic bias in YouTube. So if you airdrop a human animal and they land on let’s say a teenage girl and she wants to watch a dieting video the thing that works best at keeping that girl watching a dieting video on YouTube the longest is to say here’s an anorexia video because that’s between you know here’s more calm stuff and true stuff and here’s the more insane divisive outrageous conspiracy intense stuff. YouTube always if they want to keep your time they want to steer you down that road.

**Tristan Harris:** And so if you airdrop a person on a 9/11 video about just the 9/11 news event just fact-based news video the auto-playing video is the Alex Jones InfoWars. What happens to this conversation what follows is very curt smile and you know the problem is that you can also kind of hack these things and so there’s governments who actually can manipulate the way the recommendation system works by throwing thousands of headless browsers like you know versions of Firefox to watch one video and then get it to search for another video so that we search for Yuval Harari we’ve watched that one video and then we get thousands of computers to simulate people going from Yuval Harari to watching the power of Putin or something like that and then that’ll be the top recommended video. And so as default says like these systems are kind of out of control and algorithms are kind of running where two billion people spend their time. So 70% of what people watch on YouTube is driven by recommendations from the algorithm. People think that what you’re watching on YouTube is a choice. People are sitting there if they sit there they think and then they choose but that’s not true. 70% of what people are watching is the recommended videos on the right hand side which means 70% of where 1.9 billion users — that’s more than the number of followers of Islam, about the number of followers of Christianity — of what they’re looking at on YouTube for 60 minutes a day it’s the average time people spend on YouTube. So we’ve got 60 minutes and 70% is populated by a computer. So now the machine is out of control.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** People don’t want to hear this message that they are hackable animals. That their choices, their desires, their understanding of who am I, what is my most authentic aspirations — this can actually be hacked and manipulated. To put it like briefly my amygdala may be working for Putin. I don’t want to know this. I don’t want to believe that no I’m a free agent. Well if I’m afraid of something this is because because of me not because somebody implanted this fear in my mind. If I choose something this is my free will and who are you to tell me.

**Nicholas Thompson (Wired Interview):** It seems inevitable from what you wrote in your first book that we would reach this point where human minds would be hackable and where computers and machines and AI would have better understanding of us but it’s certainly not inevitable that it would lead us to negative outcomes to 9/11 conspiracy theories into a broken democracy. So have we reached the point of no return? How do we avoid the point of no return if we haven’t reached there and what are the key decision points along the way?

**Yuval Noah Harari:** Well if nothing is inevitable in that I mean the technology itself is going to develop. You can’t just stop all research in AI and you can’t stop all research in biotech and the two go together. I think that AI gets too much attention now and we should put equal emphasis on what’s happening on the biotech front because in order to hack human beings you need biology and some of the most important tools and insights they’re not coming from computer science they are coming from brain science. And many of the people who design say all these amazing algorithms they have a background in psychology in brain science because this is what you’re trying to hack. But what should we realize we can use the technology in many different ways. I mean for example we’re now using AI mainly in order to survey individuals in the service of corporations and governments but it can be flipped into the opposite direction. We can use the same surveillance systems to monitor the government in the service of individuals. That to monitor for example government officials that they are not corrupt, right? The technology is willing to do that. The question is whether we are willing to develop the necessary tools to do it.

**Tristan Harris:** Here is that the biotech lets you understand by hooking up a sensor to someone features about that person that they won’t know about themselves. And they’re increasingly reverse engineering the human animal. One of the interesting things that I’ve been following is also the ways you can ascertain those signals without an invasive sensor. And we were talking about this a second ago there’s something called video magnification where you point a computer camera at a person’s face and a human being can’t look it. I can’t look at your face and see your heart rate. My intelligence doesn’t let me see that. You can see my eyes dilating right but I can see your eyes dilating so I’m terrified. But if I put a supercomputer behind the camera I can actually run a mathematical equation and I can find the micro pulses of blood to your face that I as a human can’t see but the computer can see. So I can pick up your heart rate. What does that let me do? I can pick up your stress level because heart rate variability gives you your stress level. I can point — there’s a woman named Poppy Crum we had a TED talk this year about the end of the poker face though we had this idea that there can be a poker face we can actually hide our emotions from other people but this talk is about the erosion of that that we can point a camera at your eyes and see when your eyes dilate which actually detects cognitive strain. We are having a hard time understanding something or an easy time understanding something. We can continually adjust this based on your heart rate, your eye dilation.

**Tristan Harris:** You know one of the things with Cambridge Analytica is the idea that if we have you know which is all about that hacking of Brexit and Russia and all the other U.S. elections that was based on if I know your Big Five personality traits if I know Nick Thompson’s personality through his openness, conscientiousness, extrovertedness, agreeableness and neuroticism that gives me your personality and based on your personality I can tune a political message to be perfect for you. Now the whole scandal there was that Facebook let go of this data to be stolen by a researcher who used to have people fill in questions to figure out what are the next Big Five personality traits. But now there’s a woman named Gloria Mark at UC Irvine who’s done research showing you can actually get people’s Big Five personality traits just by their click patterns alone. So with 80% accuracy. So again the end of the poker face, the end of the hidden parts of your personality. We’re going to be able to point eyes at human animals and figure out more and more signals from them including their micro expressions when you smirk and all these things. We’ve got Face ID cameras on all of these phones. So now if you have a tight loop where I can adjust the political messages in real time to your heart rate and to your eye dilation and to your political personality that’s not a world you want to live in. It’s a kind of dystopia.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** The many contexts you can use that it can be used in class to figure out that the student is not getting the message. That’s what it is for which could be a very good thing. It could be used by lawyers like you negotiate a deal and if I can read what’s behind your poker face and you can’t that’s a tremendous advantage for me. So it can be done in a diplomatic setting like two Prime Ministers are meeting to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and one of them has an implant and the computer is whispering in his ear what is the true emotional state what’s happening in the brain in the mind of the person on the other side of the table. And what happens when the two sides have this and you have kind of an arms race and we just have absolutely no idea how to handle these these things. And so this is they memorize the whole issue this is everything is what we’re talking about and how do you trust something that can pull these signals off of you. If a system is asymmetric if you know more about me than I know more about myself we usually have a name for that in law. So for example when you deal with a lawyer a lot you hand over your very personal details to alerts they can help you but then they have this knowledge of the law and they know about your vulnerable information so they could exploit you with that. Imagine a lawyer took all that personal information and then sold it to somebody else. So but they’re governed by a different relationship which is the fiduciary relationship. They can lose their license if they don’t actually serve your interest and it’s similar like a doctor or it’s like a therapist or they also have it. So there’s this big question of how do we hand over information about us and say I want you use that to help me. So on whose authority can I guarantee there is no moment when we are handing the information in this video is the lawyer. There is this formal setting right like okay I hire you to be my lawyer this is my information and and we know this but I’m just looking down the street there is a camera yeah looking at me I don’t even know that and they are hacking me through that right. So I don’t even know it’s happening. That’s the most delicious part of it. We often say it’s like imagine a priest. Do you want to know what Facebook is? Imagine a priest in a confession booth and they listen to two billion people’s confessions but they also walk what watch you around your whole day what day what you click on which ads of Coca-Cola or Pepsi or the shirtless men and the shirtless women and all your conversations that you have with everybody else in your life because they have Facebook Messenger they have that data too. But imagine that this priest in a confession booth their entire business model is to sell access to the confession booth to another party so someone else can manipulate you because that’s the only way that this priest makes money. In this case so they don’t make money any other way. Two giant entities that will have I mean their million entities that will have this data but there’s large corporations to mention Facebook and there will be governments.

**Nicholas Thompson (Wired Interview):** What do you worry about more?

**Yuval Noah Harari:** It’s the same. I mean once you reach beyond a certain point it doesn’t matter how you call it this is the entity that actually rules again whoever has the data whoever has this kind of data I mean even in even if in a setting where you still have a formal government but in this data is in the hands of some corporation then the corporation if it wants can decide who wins the next elections. So it’s not really not much of a choice. I mean there is choice. We can design a different political and economic system in order to prevent this immense concentration of data and power in the hands of either governments or corporations that use the user to use it without being accountable and without being transparent about what they are doing.

**Tristan Harris:** The many I mean the message is not okay it’s over humankind is in the dustbin of history that’s not the message.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** No that’s not the message. I mean the eyes have stopped dilating let’s keep this going. The real question is we need to get people to understand this is real this is happening there are things we can do and like you know you have them eat ramen like elections in a couple of months. So in every in every debate every time a candidate goes to meet the potential voters in person or on television ask them this question what is your plan what is your take on this issue what are you going to do if we are going to elect you. If there if they say I don’t know what you’re talking about that’s a big problem. I think the problem is most of them have no idea what we’re talking about and so one of the issues is I think policymakers as we’ve seen are not very educated on these issues.

**Tristan Harris:** They’re dudes so much better this year than last one through watching the Senate hearings the last hearings with Jack Dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg reverses watching the Zuckerberg hearings are watching the constraints there’s been improvement it’s true there’s much more though I mean I think these issues just open up a whole space of possibility we don’t even know yet the kinds of things we’re gonna be able to predict like we’ve mentioned a few examples that we know about but if you have a secret way of knowing something about a person by pointing a camera at them an AI why would you publish that so there’s lots of things that can be known about us that to manipulate us right now that we don’t even know about and how do we start to regulate that. I think that the relationship we want to govern is when a supercomputer is pointed at you that relationship needs to be protected in a government okay and so there there are three elements in that relationship there’s the supercomputer yeah what does it do what does it not do yeah there’s the dynamic of how it’s pointed what are the rules over what it can collect what are the rules were what it can’t collect and work and store and there’s you how do you train yourself to act how do you train yourself to have self awareness. So let’s talk about all three of those areas maybe starting with the person what should the person do in the future to survive better in this dynamic.

**Yuval Noah Harari:** One thing I would say about that is I think self-awareness is important. It’s important that people know the thing we’re talking about and they realize that we can be hacked but it’s not a solution. You have millions of years of evolution that guide your mind to make certain judgments and conclusions. A good example of this is if I put on a VR helmet and now suddenly I’m in a space where there’s a ledge I’m at the edge of a cliff. I consciously know I’m sitting here in a room with Yuval and Nick. I know that consciously so I bet the self-awareness I know I’m being manipulated but if you push me I’m gonna not want to fall right because I have millions of years of evolution that tell me you are pushing me off of a ledge. So in the same way you can say Dan Ariely makes this joke actually behavioral economists that flattery works on us even if I tell you I’m making it up it’s like Nick I love your jacket right now if you it’s a great jacket it’s you know I didn’t compliment it’s a really amazing. I actually picked it out because I knew from studying your carbon dioxide exhalation yesterday. Exactly the point is that even if you know that I’m just making that up it still actually feels good. The flattery feels good. And so it’s important we have this sort of I think this is like a new era of kind of a new enlightenment where we have to see ourselves in a very different way and that doesn’t mean that that’s the whole answer it’s just the first step. We have to all walk the first step is recognizing that we’re all vulnerable hackable right vulnerable yet but there are differences. Yuval is way less hackable than I am because he meditates two hours a day and doesn’t use a smartphone right. I’m so lucky. So what are the other things that a human can do to be less hackable?

**Yuval Noah Harari:** So you need to get to know yourself as best as you can. It’s not a perfect solution but somebody is running after you you run as fast as you can. I mean it’s a competition who get who knows you best in the world. So when you are two years old it’s your mother. Eventually you hope to reach a stage in life when you you know yourself even better than your mother. And then suddenly you have this corporation or government running after you and they are way past your mother and they are at your back they are about to get to know. This is the critical moment they know you better than you know yourself. So run a little run a little faster and there are many ways you can run faster meaning getting to know yourself a bit better. So meditation is one way. Other people they go that and there are hundreds of techniques of meditation different work works with different people. You can go to therapy you can use out you can use sport whatever whatever works for you but it’s now becoming a much more important than ever before. You know it’s the old advising the book know yourself but in the past you did not have competition. If you lived in ancient Athens and Socrates came along and say know yourself it’s good it’s good for you and you said now I’m too busy I have this I have this olive grove I have this deals to do too I don’t have time so okay you didn’t get to know yourself better but there was nobody else who was competing with you. Now you have serious competition so you need to get to know yourself better this is likely the first maxim. Secondly is an individual if we talk about what’s happening to society you should realize you can’t do much by yourself. Join an organization like if you’re really concerned about this this week join some organization 50 people who work together are far more powerful force than 50 individuals who each of them is an activist. It’s good to be an activist it’s much better to be a member of an organization. And then there are other tested and tried methods of politics we need to go back to this messy thing of of making political regulations and choices of all this it’s maybe the most important. Politics is about power and this is where power is right now.

**Tristan Harris:** I think there’s a temptation to say okay how can we protect ourselves and when this conversation shifts into with my smartphone not hacking me you get things like oh set my phone to grayscale oh I’ll turn off notifications but what that misses is that ever you live inside of a social fabric. When we walk outside my life depends on the quality of other people’s thoughts beliefs in lives. So if everyone around me believes a conspiracy theory because YouTube is taking 1.9 billion human animals and tilting the playing field so everyone watches InfoWars by the way YouTube has driven 15 billion recommendations of Alex Jones InfoWars and that’s that’s recommendations and then 2 billion views. If only one in a thousand people believe those two billion views that’s still 2 million automatics is not and so if that’s 2 million people that’s still 2 million new conspiracy theorists. So if everyone else is walking around in the world you don’t get to do that. If you say hey I’m a kid I’m a teenager and I don’t want to care about the number of likes I get so I’m gonna stop using Snapchat or Instagram I don’t want to be hacked for my self worth in terms of likes so if I’m using if I’m a teenager and I’m using Snapchat or Instagram and I don’t want to be hacked for my self-worth in terms of the number of likes I get I can say I don’t want to use those things but I still live in a social fabric where all my other sexual opportunities social opportunities homework transmission where people talk about that stuff if they only use Instagram I have to participate in that social fabric. So I think we have to elevate the conversation from how do I make sure I’m not hacked it’s not just an individual conversation we want society to not be hacked which goes to the political point and sort of how do we politically mobilize to as a group to change the whole industry.

**Daniel:** I’m not sure about you but I watched this at least four times now to really pick it up but I’m sure it really follows the premise both minor and major that I’ve made over the last year with 360 Men and with Theoplexus and with the platform that all the guys are on. I think we should talk right? So the call to action to this video would be hmm find something simple then you can take action on which one be aware watch it again subscribe maybe talk to us by coming over to 360 Men and meet one of the guys. Let me introduce you to some of them in your area. Keep going alone can you fallen curved ass look at all the scotomas that are already being brought out. Alright good on you for watching. Talk to you soon.

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**CODEX ENTRY**

**Date:** 2019-05-17  
**File:** 360MEN WTA 206 - Deux Deux.md  
**Monomyth Stage:** 11 - The Resurrection  
**Gameboard:** Camp 5: The Return / Elixir  
**MA5 Domain:** Initium  
**Summary:** After 12 weeks of building Theoplexus syndication platforms, Daniel returns with the Harari/Harris interview as external validation of the Scotomaville warnings, declaring self-knowledge an urgent competition against hackable-human technology.  
**Key Insight:** The hero who fails to truly know himself will be known and controlled better by machines and those who wield them; platform ownership and team alliance are the practical responses that resurrect human sovereignty.  
**Narrative Significance:** This episode marks the Resurrection phase of the Scotomaville/Initium arc — the hero receives authoritative confirmation from leading thinkers on the very dangers he has been mapping, dramatically foreshadows the carbon-level manipulation drama he will soon endure firsthand, and cements the mandate to build the KB corpus and IPG on Intelligent Netware as the antidote for carbon > silicon > carbon.

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**INITIUM.**