Because the NSA isn't going to stop, the CCP isn't going to stop. Anyone who doesn't stop is a threat to my personal freedom, so the only logical reaction to me is to empower yourself as well as possible and keep training.
A government's proprietary possession of computational power is analogous to it having weapons barred from public ownership, meaning they control a vector of violence than could be used against their citizens without counter-balance.
If someone else has the ability to weaponize information against you, your ability to understand reality is threatened. Without personal LLMs or other AI tools, my ability to analyze things like deepfakes, LLM-written text, or other reality-distortion assets is threatened.
It might sound hyperbolic but we're already hearing people talk about banning GPUs. I'm not trying to fall back into the past.
Despite all the evolutions.