I agree with you. I submit that it is notoriously difficult to get humans to follow specific instructions universally as well. Never mind rule breakers, even co

I agree with you. I submit that it is notoriously difficult to get humans to follow specific instructions universally as well. Never mind rule breakers, even cooperative humans are frequently poor at following directions. Human error is prevalent. Ever screwed up or wasted hours while assembling furniture? You can have all the time in the world, all the necessary resources, have relevant prior experience and a set of step-by-step instructions with diagrams and everything, and it can still be a mess. Ambiguity of language and biased assumptions play a large role in these mistakes and I think both of those are outgrowths of intelligence. As we see more of how the world works, we learn what to generally expect from it and what it generally expects from us. Then we interact with the world based on a set of predictions that generally holds true but not always. Being given explicit instructions helps to inform those predictions, but it doesn't actually eliminate the need for them. I wonder, can one be intelligent without the ability to predict? Every action would be a rigorous processes of elimination for infinite possibilities.