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The powers that be inside the Beltway will never let this happen in the current geo-political climate, it's like shooting themselves in their own foot. All that

The powers that be inside the Beltway will never let this happen in the current geo-political climate, it's like shooting themselves in their own foot. All that the Alphabet leaders/lawyers have to say is something on the lines of: "We can leverage AI better as a big integrated corporation and so we can better defeat the Chinese", and the game is theirs. This is irrespective of what some minor judge or even a Federal agency not directly connected to the "war-adjacent" institutions in DC might say (i.e. something like the FTC will never have the upper hand against the White House, the CIA, the State Department or the Pentagon, again, not in this geo-political climate).

psunavy03 2y ago
As someone who spent 20 years in uniform active and reserve . . . this is unadulterated tinfoil-hattery.
- paganel 2y ago
  You were most probably still at grunt-like level by the time you left, this is a very recent article co-written by Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt: America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future [1] You must of have also missed the tens of billions of dollars (and more) that the people in DC are now more than happy to throw at the US IT industry, all in the name of national security. And you think they’re going to kill one of their golden geese for competition-related reasons? That’s just delusional. [1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-ready-wars-future-ukraine-israel-mark-milley-eric-schmidt https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-read...
  - psunavy03 2y ago
    Ah, the old "you disagree with me, therefore you must have only been a stupid grunt" argument. If they broke up Google, DOD could contract with the remnants as easily as they contract with Alphabet today. If anything, deficiencies in the defense sector are because of forced consolidations and mergers stifling innovation and competition post-Cold War, not the opposite. DOD suffers when it can only contract with a few dated apathetic behemoths. Look at Boeing vs. SpaceX. But feel free to make believe that I wasn't a senior officer when I hung it up.

psunavy03 2y ago

As someone who spent 20 years in uniform active and reserve . . . this is unadulterated tinfoil-hattery.

paganel 2y ago
You were most probably still at grunt-like level by the time you left, this is a very recent article co-written by Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt: America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future [1] You must of have also missed the tens of billions of dollars (and more) that the people in DC are now more than happy to throw at the US IT industry, all in the name of national security. And you think they’re going to kill one of their golden geese for competition-related reasons? That’s just delusional. [1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-ready-wars-future-ukraine-israel-mark-milley-eric-schmidt https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/ai-america-read...
- psunavy03 2y ago
  Ah, the old "you disagree with me, therefore you must have only been a stupid grunt" argument. If they broke up Google, DOD could contract with the remnants as easily as they contract with Alphabet today. If anything, deficiencies in the defense sector are because of forced consolidations and mergers stifling innovation and competition post-Cold War, not the opposite. DOD suffers when it can only contract with a few dated apathetic behemoths. Look at Boeing vs. SpaceX. But feel free to make believe that I wasn't a senior officer when I hung it up.