Great example! Yes, linux being open source has been massively beneficial to society. And this is true despite the fact that some bad guys use computers as well.
Anyone who wants to can, in fact, find blueprints for making their own still. For example, https://moonshinestillplans.com/ contains plans for a variety of different types of stills and guidance on which type to build based on how you want to use it.
And in fact I think it's good that this site exists, because it's very easy to build a still that appears to work but actually leaves you with a high-methanol end product.
Is it? I've always seen concern about methanol in moonshine but I presume it came from intentional contamination from evil bootleggers. It's difficult to get a wash containing enough methanol to meaningfully concentrate in the first place if you're making whiskey or rum. Maybe with fruit wine and hard cider there's a bit more.
The physics of distillation kind of have your back here too. The lower temperature fractions with acetone and methanol always come out first during distillation (the "heads") and every resource and distiller will tell you to learn the taste and smell, then throw them out. The taste and smell of heads are really distinctive. A slow distillation to more effectively concentrate methanol also makes it easier to separate out. But even if you don't separate the heads from the hearts, the methanol in any traditional wash is dilute enough that it'll only give you a headache.
I think it's extremely hard to build a still that appears to work but creates a high methanol end product.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972336/#:~:tex....
It is very common for it not to be used responsibly. Alcohol causes health problems, and is implicated in accidents and violence.
Many countries have laws restricting either the sale of liquor in various ways, or its consumption in public places, or both, not to mention production and distribution.
If you don't put barriers, how quickly will AI bots take over people in online discourse, interaction and publication?
This isn't just for the sake of keeping the Internet an interesting place free of bots and fraud and all that.
But I've also heard that it's about improving AI itself. If AI starts to pollute the dataset we train AI on, the entire Internet, you get this weird feedback loop where the models could almost get worse over time, as they will start to unknowingly train on things their older versions produced.
What is the "it" that no single entity has control over?
You have absolutely no control of what your next door neighbor is doing with open source.
Hey, if we want alcohol to be made responsibly, everyone should have their own still, made from freely redistributed blueprints. That way no single entity has control.