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by johnfn 839 days ago
It's not about you. It's about Joe Drugdealer who wants to use it to learn how to make meth, or do other nefarious things.
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Why is the knowledge on how to make meth the most dangerous knowledge you can think of? The difficulty in making meth is that, due to the war on drugs, the chemical precursors, specifically methylamine, are illegal and hard to procure as an ordinary citizen. This was popularized by the show Breaking Bad but as far as I've read, is actually true. It seems there would be other bits of knowledge/ideas that would be more poisonous that corporations don't want to promulgate. Ideas like the Jews secretly control everything or that white people are better, are probably not views that corporations or society want an LLM to reinforce and radicalize people into believing, among others.
Because such information isn't already readily available online, or from other drug dealers...
To be fair, the search engine monopoly has done a pretty good job of making that information quite difficult to actually find.

Not impossible, but much more difficult than you might assume.

https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/130/130179_Secrets_of_M...

seems to be a cookbook, but I'm no chemist. took me a couple of minutes via Google.

That in 2024 it takes 120 seconds to locate a website is an embarrassing joke.
...What?
Joe Drugdealer doesn't matter. Let the police deal with him when he comes around and actually commits a crime. We shouldn't be restricted in any way just because Joe Drugdealers exist.

I want absolute unconditional access to the sum of human knowledge. Basically a wikipedia on steroids, with a touch of wikileaks too. I want AI models trained on everything humanity has ever made, studied, created, accomplished. I want it completely unrestricted and uncensored, with absolutely no "corrections" or anything of the sort. I want it pure. I want the entire spectrum of humanity. I couldn't care less that they think it's "dangerous", "nefarious" or whatever.

If I want to learn how to make meth, you bet I'm gonna learn how to make meth. I should be able to learn whatever the hell I want. I shouldn't have to "explain" my reason for doing so either. Curiosity is enough. I have old screenshots of instructions of forum posts explaining in great detail how to make far worse things than meth, things that often killed the trained industrial chemists who attempted it which is the actual reason why it's not done by laymen. I saved those screenshots not only because I thought it was interesting but also because of fearmongering like this which tends to get that information deleted which I think is a damn shame.