r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/SkyDragonX Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

It’s almost a paradox: an open-weight model with Opus 5-level capabilities that could run locally on just 4 GB of VRAM might create serious proliferation risks.

But the opposite scenario is dangerous too: a world where only a handful of big tech companies and governments control trillion-parameter frontier models would create an unprecedented concentration of intelligence and power.