Part XXI: The New Literacy

Part XXI: The New Literacy

21.1 The PA System Inversion

Observation 21.1: The people who were hoarding the amplification—betting they'd own the only megaphones—just built a planet-scale PA system that anyone can plug into.

Theorem 21.1 (Infrastructure Inversion): The moat builders built public infrastructure. They just don't know it yet.

21.2 The Tacit Knowledge Problem

Observation 21.2: The gap isn't just "do you have domain expertise." It's "can you articulate your domain expertise in a form the system can use."

Definition 21.1 (The Translation Problem): The nurse who's brilliant at wound care might not be able to write the reference document that captures why she makes the decisions she makes.

Theorem 21.2 (Tacit Knowledge): Expertise and articulation are different skills. Most experts can't extract their own reference signals.

21.3 The Remaining Leverage Point

Theorem 21.3 (The Final Leverage): There's still a leverage point. Not compute. Not weights. But translation.

Definition 21.2 (The Bridge Skill): The ability to sit with a domain expert and extract the reference signal from their head.

Layer	Status
Architecture	Free
Weights	Commodity
Domain expertise	Distributed
Translation	The new literacy

21.4 The Prototype

Observation 21.3: Training the team at Clarivate. Prototyping the education layer. Teaching people to extract reference signals from domain experts.

Theorem 21.4 (The Curriculum Prototype): The work isn't just building systems. It's teaching people to build systems. The education layer is the product.

21.5 Literacy as Democratization

Theorem 21.5 (Historical Pattern): Literacy has historically been the democratizing force. Once people can read, you can't control what they read.

Corollary 21.1: Once people can author reference signals, you can't control what gets amplified.

21.6 The Final Reframe

Final Theorem 21.6 (Beyond Redistribution): You're not just redistributing the value. You're redistributing the capability to create value.

Definition 21.3 (The Real Output): That's not a whitepaper. That's a curriculum.

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The bridge between human knowledge and machine-readable intent. The new literacy. The capability to create value, distributed.

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