> We often get mired in the debate of "should people be able to learn to make bombs or how to best kill themselves" (and those are important debates), but our s

> We often get mired in the debate of "should people be able to learn to make bombs or how to best kill themselves" (and those are important debates), but our solutions to those problems will have big implications for future access to knowledge, and who gets to control that access. In the process of trying to prevent a short-term harm, we may end up causing unintended long-term harm. I agree -- I call this the "Age of Dislightenment". I wrote about this at length last year, after interviewing dozens of experts on the topic: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-11-07-dislightenment.html https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-11-07-dislightenment.html