But the amount of available compute has been contractual bought by the frontier labs such that you can’t get equivalent compute even if you had the money. That is market lock up and is a policy choice. Free markets require market access. Anticompetitive contracting destroys markets and innovation. We don’t allow that in any other commodity market and we shouldn’t allow it for GPUs. You are not allowed to legally corner the market for silver or soybean futures.

I am reasoning from analogy. Smallpox is dangerous so we have regulations that limit who can do research and how they do it. If LLMs are similarly dangerous we could do the same. As the government did with mythos.

Short reminder from the guidelines:

'When disagreeing, reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." '

Also LLM's have something to do with smallpox as a unrestricted LLM will happily guide any wannabe terrorist in how to make them.