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The relevant law (the Clayton Act) requires the judge to “terminate” the monopoly, but that happens…rarely.

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn

By fools in old-style hats and coats,

Who half the time were soppy-stern

And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.

It deepens like a coastal shelf.

Get out as early as you can,

And don’t have any kids yourself.

They aren’t MAGA as much as they are capitalist, and MAGA is in power right now

There goes the neighborhood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite_UFED

Valve represents the acme of capitalism, with likely the highest profit per employee of any corporation that has ever existed, and you’re out here sucking them off?

STOP👏DEFENDING👏MONOPLIES

CIA bot out here defending capitalist exploitation as reasonable lmao

This is a very bad comparison. Valve has by some estimates the highest profit per employee of any corporation in the world. Reasonable markups in a competitive market are a far cry from the ludicrous extraction tax Valve (and Apple, and Google) impose as monopolist app store operators.

I agree, but you can’t copyright what an LLM produces anyway

the output of an LLM can’t be copyrighted, so the claim is absurd on the face of it

Looks like criti-hype, sadly

Maybe some of these ones?

Don’t post reputation-washing corporate PR. Billionaires aren’t heroes when then make undemocratic donations to charity that never should have belonged to them, and LLM companies don’t get credit for trying to stem the tide of bad publicity around data centers.

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Haha fuck science, amirite?

It’s not apples to oranges, because the network effects (and coercive pressures they create) are in fact incredibly similar: sellers have to go where most customers are, and most PC gamers begin and end their search for games on Steam, just like most online shoppers begin and end their searches on Amazon.

Nobody thinks that it’s impossible, which is incredibly rare, but rather that it’s very costly not to comply, which is the source of every monopolist’s power. Could Pepsi refuse to sell at Walmart to avoid the huge wholesale discounts they demand over smaller stores? Sure, but it would shoot themselves in the foot, and that’s the source of Walmart’s anticompetitive power, which coerces Pepsi (and lots of other suppliers) and hurts lots of smaller businesses who don’t get the same discount.