The human capacity to detect minds in other agents is one of the most ancient and robust cognitive systems we have — and it is categorically unsuited to evaluating AI. When a commenter on Bluesky observed that NT social cognition has a 'finely calibrated mind-detector' that 'works below awareness' and that AI mimicry causes it to misfire , they named the central epistemological problem more precisely than most academic treatments. The detector is not malfunctioning. It is doing exactly what it was built to do, in conditions it was never…