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This is such a naive take. What happens when "those files on a USB drive" turn into a zero day button that can harm millions of people?

What happens when they help authoritarian dictatorships build nuclear weapons?

What happens when they teach average people the steps needed to make a bioweapon at home?

Every society restricts dangerous capabilities at the end of the day, because most people realize there is a crossover point between the danger of the capability and it being available to everyone.

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> What happens when "those files on a USB drive" turn into a zero day button that can harm millions of people?

We need to make sure only the chinese and criminals have that zero day button and western companies can't discover zero days in their own systems to protect themselves? Is that what you're getting at?

Some very bad people already have a "button that can harm millions of people".

Some more very bad people are building them.

This democratizes that ability.

Might be good. Might be bad. Might be both.

Fuck you for thinking you know better than everyone else.

Thank you so much for saying what I'd like to without getting flagged.

This sort of thinking is what gets us into a world where journalists get bonesawed because some technolibertarians thought technology should be free.

You can give tools to defenders and not attackers. This is something that is possible to do.

> This sort of thinking is what gets us into a world where journalists get bonesawed

Journalists get bonesawed because of an abuse of the concentration of power, which is what you're directly advocating for.

The concentration of power is there either way, giving everyone a zero day button does nothing but create chaos and disarray.

We already gave everyone a zero-day button. Zero days are being discovered for Windows, macOS and Linux on a weekly or sometimes daily basis.

The result has been more proactive and informed OS security with a higher turnover rate for discovering, disclosing and patching new bugs. The market for creating zero-days has cratered and left talented malware developers without a cornered market. Frontier, uncensored LLMs like GLM 5.2 are proving instrumental in responding to cutting-edge adversaries.

Your theory does not hold up in practice and cannot be meaningfully extrapolated to more advanced AI.

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