> These can be tools to destroy the oppression that governs our lives

So far it seems that the clearest use for these tools is to enhance, rather than destroy, oppression.

1. Suppression / elimination of white collar jobs

2. Negative cognitive effects, especially for young people

3. Accelerated decline in social media / information ecosystems. Increasing polarization, hard to tell fact from fiction.

4. Environmental impacts: increased energy usage means more carbon in the atmosphere, climate change accelerates.

5. Software security incidents increasing. Hard for individuals and small organizations to defend themselves.

6. “Power to think” vested in a very small group of organizations/labs. Doing work which should only require a computer and freely-available software will now be gated by expensive subscriptions. Once you “vibe code” a significant portion of your software you’re locked in and cannot go back to maintaining it without frontier-model level assistance.

Security theather is easy and gets lots of eyeballs. Actual security is hard and no one cares. Which one do you think soon-to-ipo companies are going to pick?

> I just love this whole "forbidden knowledge" schtick the AI safety dweebs have stuck up their butt.

It's just the latest incarnation of a timeless debate. In the 1970s and 1980s it was about the Anarchists's Cookbook, which was revived again in the 1990s when it started circulating on the Internet. There are many timeless debates, but the debate over weapon-making knowledge is much more concrete and predictable.