It's not someone else's possession - it's someone else's proprietary possession. A government's proprietary possession of computational power is analogous to i

It's not someone else's possession - it's someone else's proprietary possession. 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.