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   M.G. Siegler (mgs@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 22:37:01 JST M.G. Siegler

   I knew I wouldn't agree with Lina Khan's recent NYT op-ed, but basically every word of it was wrong, or exactly backwards. https://spyglass.org/earth-to-lina-khan/

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 22:37:00 JST Anil Dash

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     @mgs think you’re off on this, and misreading some of this stuff in a way that only VCs seem to be doing. Zuck spent an hour on Rogan arguing that the government won’t let him innovate on AI, you say it’s very easily possible to make new AI startups right now. She’s countering his bullshit. Maybe you’re mad at him, not her? The industry is not better for every market being pre-decided by which big player can spend the most, either hyper-investing or tying & bundling.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 22:40:25 JST Anil Dash

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     @mgs I’ve always built dev tools. I am going to have to play ball with Microsoft’s monopoly on that space whether I want to or not, if I ever want to build in that market again. And there is _zero_ chance the Trump administration is allowing any winners in any Musk-adjacent markets through any mechanism other than corruption. It’s textbook strongman authoritarianism. Same goes for anti-competes, any worker rights are already being gutted. (And unions, though that’s not Khan’s purvey.)

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     M.G. Siegler (mgs@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 22:55:42 JST M.G. Siegler

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     • Anil Dash

     @anildash it is of course not *easy* to create a new AI startup, but there's nothing stopping any of them from doing essentially what DeepSeek did other than this weird mental model that you needed billions of dollars (which this causes a re-think of, in a good way). If anything, she seemed *more* aligned with Zuck here? Arguing for open source (open weight), so she was presumably cool with Llama...

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     M.G. Siegler (mgs@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 22:56:32 JST M.G. Siegler

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     • Anil Dash

     @anildash Yeah but let's not conflate those things. If she was trying to break up government corruption, I'd be all for that. (lol)