And if we left a population of SOTA LRMs on an island for long time, would we return to find that they had done the same?

Something like Robin Hood in the final analysis?

I am subjected to periodic performance reviews, you know.

There was that "smart contract" idea back when immutable distributed ledgers were in fashion. I still struggle to see the approach being workable for anything more complicated (and muddied) than Hello World level contracts.

That sounds pretty heavy on theatre and pretty light on insight!