It's less "good guy with a gun" and more "some random country with a small to medium army". Access to violence doesn't democratize on the individual level, but as the parent comment alludes to weapons changes allowed peasant armies to defeat trained knights, changing the structure of society.
You personally might not be able to exploit open AI fully, but there are lots of countries and orgs that could. Remember millions of dollars is loose change in the defense context.
This comment section has proven you right. HN: We don't tolerate mindless repetitive criticism of programming languages, we do tolerate mindless repetitive criticism of people.
(I'm referring to the manual reduction of the rank of an article mocking go)
Rust has a zero-runtime-cost Option<T>. Presuming T is a non-nullable pointer it compiles to something that uses the nullpointer to store the None varient. (This isn't a special-case for Option in the compiler, this optimization applies to any two-varient enum where one varient can store a pointer and the other varient stores nothing).
You personally might not be able to exploit open AI fully, but there are lots of countries and orgs that could. Remember millions of dollars is loose change in the defense context.