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As I understand it, there are 2 reasons to break up companies:
1. when they become too profitable and don't spend anything on R&D to create world-leading products; and
2. when they spend hundreds of billions of dollars to create world-leading products that aren't profitable
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Setting aside specifics. Doesn't China have, like, an insanely competitive tech sector?
I read it early this morning. It was completely incoherent. She makes it sound as though all the AI research in the US is being done by gigantic slow companies, when Anthropic, xAI, Open AI, and dozens of others are all startups. I would’ve given it more mind, except for the fact
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Do you think China is *slower* at iterating and deploying new technology relative to the US? They’ve beaten us on EVs, communications tech, AI surveillance, and green tech. Hard to argue that the US tech startup scene is more competitive than China’s.
Our advantage is really
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i'm not gonna read the article but i trust her sentiments and analysis over your likely mischaracterization of them
You have two conflicting issue here. 1. Those companies have hoovered up a critical mass of grade A talent in the US. 2. Those companies, being large, have large amounts of capital to allow building really cool stuff. 3. Those companies have EXTREMELY LOW productivity per capita
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I know google is basically a monopoly, but I also feel like I'm getting much more consumer surplus from their products than I'm paying for. It breaks the monopolies are inherently framework enough for me to re-consider anti-trust action as the best interventoin. Some level of
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She literally didn’t say China’s system was more open and competitive. Her argument is that we shouldn’t give big tech companies additional capital and protection in the name of national champions. She mentions DeepSeek’s low cost training as an example of the type of innovations
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Sounds like she’s right though.
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its not a bad idea… these big firms are very inefficient ,filled with groupthink and wokeism, and make it more difficult for other startups to succeed
openai is a rare exception and only with significant support, but unclear how profitable they are
There's nothing in this piece about breaking up Big Tech, or asserting that China has a more open and competitive system.
she's not completely wrong
long term this is the best strategy, short term not so much
News Flash: Monopolies are less competitive and create more inefficiencies by slowing research and development.
Bonkers interpretation by you.
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That’s not at all how I read it. It’s quite smart so I gift it to all here. Always disappointing but on George Mason’s brand to be so captured by big tech monopoly power one can’t acknowledge it. nytimes.com/2025/02/04/opi
A lot of Lina Khan’s writings never struck me as very serious or well thought through
Meta AI researchers are fretting over the threat of Chinese AI, whose quality caught American firms, including OpenAI, by surprise.
We are at a point where a single grad student at Berkeley developed a model that is competitive with o1.
So, maybe her reasoning is wrong, and breaking up big companies is insane, but the idea that putting more AI resources in the hands of more, smaller research labs instead of
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The US Antitrust department has a track record of trying to break up a large tech company just before they encounter serious competition. First Microsoft (just before Chrome), and now Google (as ChatGPT offers serious competition).
but block a merger for Spirit/Jet Blue cause it's anti-competitive -> then Spirit files for BK, they liquidate planes, drop routes, and make the airline industry *less* competitive. Make it make sense...
China’s dirigist system only took off under Xi Jinping. It is already starting to show negative results as seen with their stagnating GDP.
Of course China’s tech ecosystem is more open and competitive. There’s no need to deny reality.
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Errrrmmmm... Did she ever take industrial economics that discussed economies of scale?
It’s not bonkers. It’s the truth. This will also break up the incestuous sv startup scene with friends buying each others labs to ‘acquihire’
As an enforcer, she had to be taken seriously.
As a public intellectual???
Just look at Google. They were leading the world on LLMs. What did they do with that lead? They decided commercialising it either wasn't worth it or would threaten their search business. I didn't read the article, but if her argument is that concentrating resources and talent in
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As long as Democrats hold on to her, the tech billionaires will stay with the Republicans, so I hope Democrats never give her up
The blockchain landscape is incredibly dynamic and competitive, with development occurring at an unprecedented pace. For the first time in human history, we have a truly free market where anyone can compete globally.
In blockchain, the landscape shifts so rapidly that the
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Complex systems that are irresilient fail. The US has become increasingly irresilient for decades. She’s not wrong.
The op-ed space for the NYTimes, the WaPo and the Atlantic are reaching new lows for intellectual vacuousness.
She isn’t missed.
Her and her campaigning around with AOC.
These revolutionaries almost won.
Sheesh
Why do wypipos gotta be so stoopid?
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The easiest way for China to sabotage the US is to do something well and suggest the US try it.
Americans will refuse out of sheer butthurt. x.com/Molson_Hart/st…
We were amputed by people like her for last 4 years, thanks to her multiple firms are bankrupted or in bankruptcy. So manh jobs lost. We are winning despite of people like her.
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Can someone please explain to me why the leftist with actual influence/experience are all doubling down on increasingly unpopular policies and ideologies? Like this is clearly a replicating phenomenon right now and no one is talking about it.
Compete over what? Because US firms cannot compete in China - it is a closed market
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And still created in America and can’t exactly spy on technologies that no one else has invented can you, not really proving China is outinnovating if they’re spying on American companies to do stuff
The blockchain landscape is incredibly dynamic and competitive, with development occurring at an unprecedented pace. For the first time in human history, we have a truly free market where anyone can compete globally.
In blockchain, the landscape shifts so rapidly that the
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I'm not clear why Meta becoming 3 or 4 companies or Google a few for that matter would be a bad thing.
I think she fell for the “deepseek came from a small team” misinformation 
America has a long history of strong antitrust enforcement. Hard to argue there's a more prime example of an industry that needs it than tech.
This is exactly what Sama has done even by Lina Khans admission tho, not exactly any DeepSeek without OpenAI
> Unreal
She may be incorrect, but she is not necessarily incorrect.
Expertise in one field (say, economics) commonly causes the individual to mistake themselves for having expertise in other fields (say, systems theory, epistemology, etc)
Seems like an economies-of-scale industry that would call for regulation rather than antitrust policy.
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Yeah, I don’t know about breaking up existing players but it would be good to incentivize more competition in the tech sector.
I haven’t read the article but if a PR shill for Google and big tech is denouncing it, it’s worth a look.
America needs sclerotic near monopolies that invent new ways to rent seek if we want to stay competitive.
