tl;dr: The author tears into Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay, arguing it's self-serving fearmongering designed to secure regulation of open-weight models, antitrust waivers, and China restrictions that would entrench Anthropic and OpenAI as anointed AI stewards. They specifically debunk Amodei's claim that AI agents could soon commandeer the internet with a persistent botnet as technically illiterate, and compare the push to gate "dangerous" AI to the 1990s US government attempts to classify strong encryption as munitions—a fight civil liberties advocates ultimately won.