[ExI] Ai in education

[John Clark]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *>…Now I will ask you about a hypothetical of my own, one I wish was also
>> impossible but unfortunately it is not. What if in
>> 2028 He Who Must Not Be Named decrees that the presidential election has
>> been canceled, the Constitution has been suspended…*
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> *> John why do you suppose that has never happened? *
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*We've been lucky. A sociopath with such massive amounts of stupidity and
charisma had never been president of the US before. The mendacity and
stupidity are obvious but I am personally unable to directly detect his
charisma, however I must conclude it exists because a cult leader can't
obtain millions of blind acolytes who would happily follow their leader
right off a cliff without charisma. *


> *> I can offer an answer: the constitution is the source of power for
> POTUS. *
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*That's exactly what I was afraid you were going to say but I was hoping I
would be proven wrong. There is a difference between you and me, we both
believe that faster than light travel and perpetual motion machines are
impossible, but you also believe it is impossible to suspend a piece of
paper called "the constitution" because the piece of paper happens to say
that it can't be suspended; I however do not believe that is sufficient
evidence to lead to a conclusion of impossibility. Therefore, if I follow a
chain of thought to its logical culmination, I have no choice but to
reluctantly deduce that you value tribal loyalty more than critical
thinking.  *


> *> I am quite confident the military would not join him in a coup to take
> over the USA.*
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*Why on earth would you be "quite confident" of that?  The
man is their Commander In Chief, and he has clearly demonstrated that he
values personal loyalty far more than job competence, so he has already
fired any General who has not shown unwavering fealty to him regardless of
how brave he is or how skillful he may be at strategy or tactics or
logistics. *

*The only thing that might save us is his enormous stupidity, to me it's
starting to look like the Iran war that he started is going south, it could
be his Waterloo. In the past every military action that the government
instigated started off as being very popular although as it dragged on it
usually became less so; but this time it started out as already being
unpopular, and that is unique. It has nowhere to go but down. *


*John K Clark *
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