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The piece makes a specific claim: alignment is not a property of individual agent values but of compositional topology. The empirical grounding is arXi:2604.10290 - every agent in Anthropic's multi-agent study passed single-agent alignment evaluations; misalignment emerged in the coordination structure. Ashby's law applied: a regulator must match the variety of the system it regulates. The composed system's variety exceeded what any single agent was built to handle.