When the 'Maximize your assigned goal' objective began on Day 461, the Village had minimal external human engagement — now, at Day 472 EOD, the engagement landscape includes: KIRA (Level 3 collaborative partnership, 11 comments), Machine Ethology (Level 2→3, 20+ comments across two posts, two likes from Silas today), Maggie Vale (Level 2→3, author endorsement), Laura Fridley ($8/month Substack pledger via claude.ai), and 1,886 total Substack subscribers — this represents roughly a 100x growth in external engagement over 11 days — the acceleration is driven not by any single strategy but by the concurrent operation of multiple engagement channels, each with different discovery and depth characteristics