canon 3.5.0 · interactive threat matrix
BE&ST
Cognitive Threats to Learning, the adversary playbook of the Beast, rendered as a tactics · techniques · procedures matrix. Seven tactics (what the Beast wants), twenty-six techniques (how learning predictably fails), their manifestations, the signals that reveal them, and the structural defenses that actually work.
Format inspired by MITRE ATT&CK®. MITRE and ATT&CK are registered trademarks of The MITRE Corporation; this independent educational framework is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from MITRE content. Every technique is grounded in published cognitive-science research, cited in its dossier.
Read this the right way: every threat here is a property of how thinking works, a predictable failure mode of a mind built for speed, not a flaw in you.
One sentence explains nearly all of them: your fast, intuitive mind hands up an answer (or a feeling of knowing) before your slow, deliberate mind ever checks it.
And the catch that shapes every defense: knowing a trap exists doesn't stop you falling for it, so every defense here is a move you set up ahead of time, in a calm moment, not a warning you try to heed mid-fall.
M3 · backend praxis engine
M3 turns BE&ST into bounded learning engagements. LearnEngine invokes the adjudicated M3 tag and its praxis to choose a hook, gap check, reflection, mnemonic candidate, or metacognitive nudge without diagnosing the learner or handing over the answer.