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Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity

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33 points almost-exactly | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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mensetmanusman ◴[28 Jun 25 14:32 UTC] No.44404980[source]▶
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.

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9283409232 ◴[28 Jun 25 14:44 UTC] No.44405049[source]▶
You say that like killing Bell Labs was a bad thing and Google did not give us LLMs. They may have wrote the paper on transformers but the ground work was done by universities.
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AnimalMuppet ◴[28 Jun 25 14:57 UTC] No.44405140[source]▶
Do you have any reason for claiming that killing Bell Labs was something other than bad?
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9283409232 ◴[28 Jun 25 15:09 UTC] No.44405223[source]▶
Do you have any reason for thinking Bell Labs was good for the industry? The DoJ broke up AT&T specifically because their monopoly was putting their foot on competition.
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1. bostik ◴[28 Jun 25 17:58 UTC] No.44406747[source]▶
Bell Labs was good for the industry despite of AT&T monopoly. The research they did was fundamental and has been feeding into further development over decades.

It doesn't make Ma Bell or their ilk any less awful.