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33 points almost-exactly | 3 comments | 28 Jun 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.584s | source

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Antitrust applied naively by activists who are anti growth has its negatives though when it comes to R&D.

It killed Bell Labs, and it would have killed LLM research at Google before it started.

Figure out how to protect research and I’m all for anti trust.

cowpig ◴[28 Jun 25 14:39 UTC] No.44405024[source]▶

The vast majority of the fundamental research that led to the AI "explosion" today was done in academia.

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Academia did not have the scale of billions in compute resources to execute.

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2. bigbadfeline ◴[28 Jun 25 17:11 UTC] No.44406331[source]▶

That's a good argument for more taxes and more antitrust.

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Good luck convincing the public.

Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity