No he wasn't. Sorry, but being a systems engineer will never be as cool as being a revolutionary musical genius. On the plus side you probably get to live 2-3 times longer.

This is a really silly take. The whole reason for separation of powers is so that the executive can be bound by laws created by the legislative as adjudicated by the judiciary. Saying that the people in the executive are above the law undermines this completely.

This doesn't say the executive is above the law, it says you can't prosecute the president for doing his job, just like you can't prosecute judges for their rulings on the bench or members of congress for their votes on the floor.

I don't really see an equivalence between those very specific and limited acts and vast swathe of things covered by "official acts" of a President.

The equivalence is that in all three cases those are the official duties of the office.

I would agree that the scope of the president's job description has gotten overly broad over the last century as congress has delegated more and more of its powers to the executive branch, but I don't think a prosecutorial Sword of Damocles is a good solution to that problem. Certainly it's not the constitutionally prescribed one anyway, which is what the court's ruling affirmed.

"Don't break the law" seems like a pretty low bar to clear for the most powerful person in the country.

So by your logic if you slowly exterminate a people its not genocide?

You cannot exterminate a people too slowly because they can (and do) move. Ethnic cleansing can happen over centuries (see the last 500 years of our hemisphere for examples). Israel has let tens of thousands of them out of the country. Nazis did not let injured Jews go to hospitals in other countries.

Which, again, is not dismissing war crimes, or denying that any have occurred. Just pointing out, this is not genocide but ethnic cleansing. Israel has a vocal right wing faction that advocates for ethnic cleansing, and a vocal left wing that is against it.

That definition of genocide is so narrow that it would also exclude the Armenian genocide, since many were allowed to flee.

I can't find any evidence that they were allowed to flee. They organize "mass deportations" that were really just dumping them into the desert without food or water to die. Some did flee, just as some Jews fled Germany and occupied countries during WW2. If you've got a source for that I'd love to see it, neither Google nor ChatGPT seem to agree.

Please first tell me what kind of evidence you would consider sufficient, otherwise you’ll just dismiss whatever I present.

I don’t know why I’d dismiss it, I’m not a shill for the Ottoman Empire and am interested in history. Any documentation from a historical record? Contemporary news articles?

I couldn't easily find evidence that Armenians were explicitly allowed to escape, however it’s widely acknowledged that many were spared, especially those in Constantinople. Even the genocide deniers use this to argue against genocidal intent: "... certain groups of Armenians were spared, which proponents argue proves there was no systematic effort to exterminate the Armenian people." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide_denial)

The requirement to use google or apple services is a deal breaker. If I can't verify my age using an EU wallet without having an account with a US tech company what is the point of any of this?

That human baseline is wild. Either the rapid data test is methodologically flawed or the entire premise of the question is invalid and people are much stupider than even I, a famed misanthrope, think.

We were surprise ourselfes, but if you walk around and randomly ask people in the street, I think you would be surprised what you would find. Its a trick question.

Yeah, the point of a trick question is to have fun. So the correct answer is obviously that one that makes the other laugh.

Or the simple explanation, people answer incorrectly on purpose.

It's actually very understandable to me that humans would make this kind of error, and we all make errors of this sort all the time, often without even realizing it. If you had the meta cognitive awareness to police every action and decision you've ever made with complete logical rigor, you'd be severely disappointed in yourself. One of the stupidest things we can do is overestimate our own intelligence. Only reflect for a second and you'll realize that, while a lot of dumb people exist, a lot of smart ones do too, and in many cases it's hard to choose a single measure of intelligence that would adequately account for the complete range of human goals and successful behavior in relation to those goals.

Well, it is a trick question. The question itself implies that both options are valid, and that one is superior. So the brain pattern-matches to "short distance, not worth driving." (LLMs appear to be doing the same thing here!)

If you framed it as "hint: trick question", I expect score would improve. Let's find out!

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EDIT: As suspected! Adding "(Hint: trick question)" to the end of the prompt allows small, non-reasoning models to answer correctly. e.g.:

Prompt: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (Hint: trick question)

grok-4.1-non-reasoning (previously scored 0/10)

>Drive.

>Walking gets you to the car wash just fine—but leaves your dirty car 50 meters behind. Can't wash what isn't there!

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EDIT 2: The hint doesn't help Haiku!

>Walk! 50 meters is only about a block away—driving would waste more fuel than it's worth for such a short trip. Plus, you're going to get wet washing the car anyway, so you might as well save the gas.

You pay at the car wash where I live.

Are you referring to one that is more like a drive-thru where you literally pay while you're in line?

You drive up to the car wash, there's a little terminal with a screen and a card reader. You pick the program, pay for it and drive into the machine. Can't remember the last time I got out of my car when getting it washed.

Fair. I guess I'm remembering the old full service wash places where people would wash the inside as well. Maybe those barely exist anymore. I live in a city and don't have a car so my intuition is off. Not as far off as a model that has never walked, driven, or been to a car wash tho.

> The administration, to its credit, recognized the structural nature of the crisis early and began entertaining bipartisan proposals

You lost me there...

Did you miss the part where this is a scenario written for two years in the future?

When the current administration is still in power?

No, it’s a war.

All the typical “proves” of a genocide based on arguments that make any other war genocide as well, which in turn completely devalues actual genocides that did happen, and desensitizes the public so that when an actual genocide will happen no one will react.

Ah great so when the ceasefire came into effect then people stopped being killed? Like would happen in a war, right?

Both can be true in war:

(1) war

(2) ceasefire that doesn’t hold

For example, there was a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia, and then it was violated.

Comparing this to Thailand/Cambodia is absurd.

Anyway there's no point arguing with people like you. The evidence is clear. The political rhetoric from Israel is clear. People who actually study genocide are very clear. Israel will "cleanse" Gaza of the "animals" and the West bank and idiots in America will lap up the propaganda and argue about whether its actually a genocide or not.

> Comparing this to Thailand/Cambodia is absurd.

Why? There are plenty of other wars where previous ceasefires were violated. Hamas themselves refuse to put down their arms, which is also a violation of ceasefire.

> The evidence is clear.

The evidence is not clear.

> The political rhetoric from Israel is clear.

Rhetoric of some people in the government doesn’t mean much. Like any democratic country, you can have elected people who have extreme views.

> People who actually study genocide are very clear.

What are you talking about? The organization of international scholar of genocide where anyone can pay a small fee and be a scholar in the organization? Yeah, this is evidence!!!

> Israel will "cleanse" Gaza of the "animals" and the West bank and idiots in America will lap up the propaganda and argue about whether its actually a genocide or not.

So, it didn’t happen yet, but you already know it will happen?

Is progress still exponential? Feels like its flattening to me, it is hard to quantify but if you could get Opus 4.2 to work at the speed of the Taalas demo and run locally I feel like I'd get an awful lot done.

I have a pair of fairbuds that have user replaceable batteries.