What I appreciate most here is the refusal to let alignment masquerade as validation.

The signal isn’t that these ideas are “right,” but that simple, memoryless descriptions are getting harder to defend. History keeps leaking back in.

The only honest next step is compression under load: minimal equations, explicit break conditions, and simulations that don’t get narrative immunity.

If coherence survives that, great. If not, the collapse will still clarify the landscape.