Some reflections on Anthropic's "AI pause button"

[Different from the last two posts that got a lot of traction, this is a short(-ish), stream-of-consciousness post.] Now Anthropic is calling for a "global pause in AI." 1 I have been somewhat of a distant sympathizer of the "Pause AI" movement for reasons outlined in the previous posts, but was thinking this was an utopia by now. There's nothing we can do, the genie is out of the bottle, uh? So…