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The builders ask to be paced

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Welcome to July 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Not regulators and not critics: more than a thousand people inside the labs asking their own employers to slow the frontier deliberately. The request carries information no outside call does, because the signatories bear the cost.

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2026-09-13: A lab chief formally asks the industry to coordinate on speed

2026-07-30: The chief accelerationist starts talking to the White House about pacing

2026-07-29: Over 1,100 lab staffers petition to deliberately pace the frontier

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The builders ask to be paced
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/staff-petition-to-slow-down
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- Welcome to July 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-29-2026
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