{
  "schema":"ULTRACON_CON_COUNTERCASES_V1",
  "version":"4.0",
  "updated":"2026-09-13",
  "principle":"Countercases are mandatory stress tests. They prevent every error, dissent, failure or simplicity from collapsing into stupidity.",
  "countercases":[
    {"id":"CC01","label":"Ignorance without stupidity","case":"The information was inaccessible or could not reasonably have been known at decision time.","blocks":"ignorance => stupidity","related_sources":["S37","S55"]},
    {"id":"CC02","label":"Bad outcome after a reasonable decision","case":"A choice made on good ex-ante evidence produces an unfavorable result under uncertainty.","blocks":"failure => bad judgment","related_sources":["S58","S62"]},
    {"id":"CC03","label":"Adaptive simple heuristic","case":"A simple rule ignoring information performs well because it fits the environment.","blocks":"simplicity => irrationality","related_sources":["S56"]},
    {"id":"CC04","label":"Accurate consensus","case":"A group aggregates diverse, partly independent evidence and outperforms its members.","blocks":"consensus => conformity/groupthink","related_sources":["S39"]},
    {"id":"CC05","label":"False minority","case":"A dissenter rejects the majority and is simply wrong.","blocks":"minority status => insight","related_sources":[]},
    {"id":"CC06","label":"Warranted expertise confidence","case":"High confidence tracks genuine expertise and good evidence.","blocks":"confidence => overconfidence","related_sources":["S05"]},
    {"id":"CC07","label":"Comic transgression that stabilizes power","case":"A fool or jester exposes authority while remaining a tolerated release valve that reproduces hierarchy.","blocks":"transgression => resistance","related_sources":["S15"]},
    {"id":"CC08","label":"Correct nonconformity","case":"A norm is locally dominant but epistemically or morally defective; refusal is not incompetence.","blocks":"nonconformity => stupidity","related_sources":["S45","S46"]},
    {"id":"CC09","label":"Machine tool failure","case":"A model's reasoning is adequate but execution fails because a tool, API or interface malfunctions.","blocks":"bad AI output => stupid AI","related_sources":[]},
    {"id":"CC10","label":"Disability without cognitive judgment claim","case":"A disability category is present but no evidence supports an inference about judgment or intelligence.","blocks":"disability => stupidity","related_sources":["S78"]},
    {"id":"CC11","label":"Strategic deception","case":"An actor knowingly produces false or misleading content for instrumental reasons.","blocks":"falsehood => stupidity","related_sources":["S74"]},
    {"id":"CC12","label":"Bullshit without low ability","case":"A highly capable actor speaks with indifference to truth because incentives reward impression management.","blocks":"bullshit => low intelligence","related_sources":["S74"]},
    {"id":"CC13","label":"Algorithm appreciation","case":"Users sometimes weight algorithmic advice more than human advice rather than rejecting machines after error.","blocks":"humans always distrust AI","related_sources":["S66"]},
    {"id":"CC14","label":"Algorithm aversion","case":"Users sometimes punish algorithm error more than comparable human error.","blocks":"humans always overtrust AI","related_sources":["S64","S65"]},
    {"id":"CC15","label":"Anthropomorphic trust without consciousness evidence","case":"Human-like cues or mental-state attributions increase trust even though they do not establish phenomenal experience.","blocks":"trusted/human-like AI => conscious AI","related_sources":["S67","S68"]}
  ]
}