Thinking Tools

Opening on February 13, he returns to non-political themes, arguing everyone is damaged by relentless mainstream-media propaganda that has made it exceedingly hard to empathize and have real conversations.

He will analyze two memes and a video through the lens of AI, starting with a pro-Elon Musk meme comparing him to a store owner who reports a robbery on camera yet gets blamed himself.

Says politics guides interpretation, with the right finding the meme funny and the left seeing fascism, and admits little sympathy for the left after being lied to daily on crypto during the Biden administration.

AI is here to restore empathy and humanity, then feeds the meme to ChatGPT 4.0, having to orient it that this is about the Department of Government Efficiency, not Dogecoin.

Reads the AI's summary that a January 25 executive order appointed Musk to lead DOGE to cut federal spending, dismantling agencies like USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Shows the AI clarifying that DOGE is advisory, not executive, since legally only the president can fire people, though Musk's recommendations carry huge weight.

The AI gives a balanced accuracy chart and improvement ideas: publish cost-benefit justifications, consult employees and economists, hold live debates, and prioritize reform over mass cuts.

Asks whether bipartisan oversight would slow things down, and the AI answers yes but that stability is worth it, citing military base realignment and closure commissions that survive across administrations.

Keeps pushing the model on a more radical DOGE with spending freezes, monthly wasteful-agency reports, and 90-day deadlines, showing how AI becomes a thinking tool to reason into rather than a comfortable picture to hide behind.

The left calls everyone on the right a Nazi and the right writes off the left, while most people sit in the middle feeling unheard, which pushes them toward extremes.

Notes the Pentagon has failed audits seven years running with hundreds of billions missing, and warns legal challenges plus Democrats possibly retaking the House in 2026 could undo DOGE via the power of the purse.

Making reform permanent means bringing even people you dislike along, which is how he actually makes business plans, deliberately and a hundred times more rigorously than his impulsive-looking Twitter hot takes.

Demonstrates asking the AI to build a PACE plan as if running DOGE, using the military framework of primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency courses of action.

Has the AI search whether this has been done elsewhere, surfacing Javier Milei's rapid austerity reforms in Argentina as a comparison with a different context and execution than DOGE.

Real decisions require dissecting things with thinking tools like PACE plans, SWOT analysis, historical comparables, and the question of what would have to be true for something to succeed.

Lists what must be true for DOGE to succeed: clear measurable objectives, legislative and executive support, change management, legal compliance, technology integration, public support, and sustainability.

Cites Business Insider that DOGE aims to cut 1 to 2 trillion dollars by July 4 2026, and asks the AI which countries have cut at that ratio, getting Argentina, Iceland, Jamaica, and Latvia.

Suggests a double-bubble or Venn diagram of similarities and differences, then notes the AI finds DOGE has executive support but mixed legislative backing and possible overreach of authority.

Congress holds the exclusive power of the purse, so unilateral fund freezes may be unconstitutional, and lawsuits can be read as a conspiracy or as judges defending separation of powers.

Musk and DOGE were never Senate-confirmed unlike RFK or Tulsi Gabbard, raising questions of FACA compliance, the Privacy Act of 1974, and conflicts of interest.

Asks whether DOGE employees operate in a SCIF, and the AI confirms they do but that their access has been controversial over proper authorization and security clearances.

Learns DOGE personnel sought SCIF entry at USAID without sufficient clearance until Musk intervened, and explains TS/SCI clearances protect compartmented budgets like the CIA and NSA, which USAID is tied to.

Flags the conflict of interest that Musk would be reviewing agencies currently investigating him, presenting the whole SCIF and clearance issue as a genuine concern worth weighing.

Defines rational ignorance, the economic choice to stay uninformed when the cost of learning exceeds the benefit, and notes all this research would have taken days and domain expertise before AI.

Democratic systems are built around rational ignorance because your vote counts the same whether informed or not, which is why elites dismiss the public as stupid.

Getting informed used to just make you angrier and more powerless, but now AI lets anyone go deep, so 26 minutes in the viewer understands DOGE better than 99 percent of Americans.

The demo is only ChatGPT 4.0, with version 5, Llama 4, and Grok 3 coming and ten times better, then turns to misinformation with an AI image captioned Professor Oldman was never seen again.

Shows how you can ask an AI whether an image is generated, and it flags facial and anatomical inconsistencies, unusual artifacts, and text artifacts as telltale signs.

While AI makes fakes ever harder to spot, AI can always detect AI, giving ordinary people superhuman fraud detection higher than the FBI had in the 1990s.

Recommends the Unsupervised Learning creator's Human 3.0 framework of substrate, fabric, telos, and daemon, alongside David Shapiro, as people thinking deeply about how AI changes who you are.

Cites a PulseChain-community video pushing a fraudulent legal letter falsely attributed to John Deaton, claiming he and the Cardano Foundation want to take down an ADA token on PulseChain.

He wishes he could community-note the lie the way Elon enabled on Twitter, but YouTube has no such system, so fake news propagates and part of the Hex community will believe it forever.

Addresses the claim that AI is left-wing biased, granting that training on academic literature and political Reddit produces a lean, which is why Grok and uncensored models exist, so pick a reasonable one.

The Gemini black-Nazi image was an overridden master prompt turning it into RoboCop 2, but that says nothing about Llama, DeepSeek, or OpenAI, and their own walkthrough was balanced and objective.

People recuse themselves from thinking and parrot the party line, noting every Democrat senator voted against RFK though he is likelier to push universal healthcare than gut Medicare and Medicaid.

Recalls COVID lab-leak talk getting people deplatformed in 2020 as conspiracy theory, and now the CIA has said COVID was likely made in a lab, arguing rational ignorance drives these cognitive traps.

Viewers are the first humans able to get PhD-level analysis over all human knowledge on any topic instantly, so they need not cling to Democrats, Republicans, or any group: get out of the cave and think for yourself.

Urges going on a genuine journey on any topic from abortion to vaccines to LGBTQ rights, and accepting the hard truth that most of the contents of your mind are memes and propaganda installed by others.

Ideas are installed to influence behavior for money, power, or social stability, and these tools let you notice the glitches in the matrix, like the film The Thirteenth Floor revealing a simulation.

Calls the transformer as meaningful an invention as the transistor, born from simply predicting the next word, and says it will fundamentally change what it means to be human.

Encourages writing out the seven things that must be true for DOGE by hand, and criticizes its outrage-wired communication, like the condoms-to-Hamas claim that was not true, versus a proper weekly audit.

The obligation is on government to justify itself, then pivots to how everyone collapses people into one-dimensional caricatures, something people constantly do to him.

Every person from a homeless man to a Starbucks barista to the president is nuanced with hopes, failures, and shameful and glorious moments, and he keeps an open mind across tens of thousands of meetings.

Thinking skills let him run wildly diverse businesses: a synthetic biology company making glowing plants, a biotech company doing stem cells and reverse aging on the Diamandis XPRIZE short list, and a 12,800-patient clinic.

Bison ranching where his herd bred to 800 instead of 400 and overgrazed amid a drought with 80 percent less water, plus a restaurant and IO, all demanding context-switching from head of state to the Wheatland DMV.

Recalls feeling small at Henry Kissinger's birthday party when Eric Schmidt brushed him off, though they shared blockchain and computer-science research interests and could have connected.

People collapse each other and make everything transactional, calculating only whether an interaction benefits them, which is dystopian, and hopes the new tools help break that.

The recommended video's daemon or telos concept, a personal API broadcast where an AR beacon shows your interests and your AI simulacra feel out whether two strangers should talk.

He is not partisan and does not work for Trump or hate the left, only judging actions, recalling the Kafkaesque Gary Gensler come-in-and-register trap that sued Coinbase.

The prior administration imprisoned his friends, arresting Roger Ver and convicting CZ, good men of integrity who deserve pardons, unlike cheaters such as Sam Bankman-Fried.

Expresses cautious optimism that the truth will come out, and lists delivered promises: a bicameral working group, legislation coming in 100 days, Ross Ulbricht's pardon, and a possible US Bitcoin strategic reserve.

Cites a crypto czar, a CFTC director who was A16Z's policy head, and the SEC crypto task force led by Hester Peirce, whom he met at ETHDenver and found fair, as reasonable people now fighting for sane policy.

The crypto policy promises were made and delivered while the prior administration cost people bank accounts and prison and even paid professors with USAID money to brand crypto as right-wing extremism, and asks to be allowed to be happy about reform and embrace complexity.