Mathieu Charles retweeted
Iâm a firm believer that the 2019 Notre Dame fire was intentional..
France has had its warnings âŠ
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Reality is much more difficult than most of us realize.
How do I know?
Because AI keeps outperforming every expectation on formal tests â programming, maths â and keeps underperforming on real-world tests, like replacing jobs.
We are the opposite. We are not very good at maths, but we are extraordinary machines for dealing with reality. That is why we underestimate how hard it is and how much it takes: the hardest things we do, we do without noticing. That is what we learn in the first years of life, and keep learning every day after.
AI learned from what we wrote down. And we only write down what was hard for us â proofs, code, rules. What was easy for us â reading a face, sensing a lie, knowing a plan wonât work â was never written, because it never needed to be. So the machine inherited our difficulties, not our abilities.
A test is a world where the problem is given, in a closed and well defined environment. In reality, finding the problem and understanding the environment is most of the work.
Planners made the same mistake long before AI. They thought the economy was a maths problem. It was a reality problem â knowledge scattered across millions of heads, most of it never put into words. Hayek saw it. The Soviet Union learned it the hard way.
The intelligence that looks impressive is the one that can be tested. The one that runs the world is the one that canât â and that is why we keep underestimating it, in machines and in men.
Pourquoi David Lisnard semble-t-il manquer dâassurance ?
Parce quâil est honnĂȘte. Il sait que la rĂ©alitĂ© est difficile.
Câest toute la diffĂ©rence avec ces menteurs qui dĂ©versent leurs mensonges avec lâassurance totale des ignorants quâils sont.
Un homme honnĂȘte sonne comme David Lisnard. Pas comme le bureaucrate irresponsable qui nâa aucun mal Ă aligner de belles phrases sans le moindre rapport avec la rĂ©alitĂ©.
Le doute nâest pas un dĂ©faut de caractĂšre. Câest le prix de lâhonnĂȘtetĂ©.
Un type bien et honnĂȘte se remet en question.
Le beau parleur pompeux et irresponsable â jamais.
Et Ă la fin, câest celui qui doute qui a tout juste.
Il ne se fait pas aveuglĂ©ment confiance â câest pour cela quâon peut lui faire confiance.
Bravo, David Lisnard ! đ«đ·đœ
Mathieu Charles retweeted
à bord de la frégate multi-missions Auvergne, j'ai assisté au premier tir du nouveau missile balistique M51.3 depuis le sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins Le Vigilant.
TrĂšs peu de nations disposent d'un tel savoir-faire.
Félicitations à tous les acteurs de cette réussite exceptionnelle : DGA, CEA, Ariane Group, Naval Group et Marine nationale. Votre professionnalisme, votre rigueur et votre maßtrise technique sont la fierté de la France.
Ce succÚs technique est une nouvelle démonstration de la crédibilité de notre dissuasion, dont la pérennité est assurée.
Pour ĂȘtre libre, il faut ĂȘtre craint. Et pour ĂȘtre craint, il faut ĂȘtre puissant.
Pour protĂ©ger les Français dans la durĂ©e face aux menaces, j'ai engagĂ© dĂšs 2017 le renouvellement de nos moyens pour les dĂ©cennies Ă venir. En dix ans, le budget de nos armĂ©es aura doublĂ©. Nos futurs sous-marins stratĂ©giques sont actuellement en chantier. Le programme de missiles stratĂ©giques hypersoniques et manĆuvrants, qui Ă©quiperont notre composante aĂ©rienne de dissuasion, a Ă©tĂ© lancĂ© cette annĂ©e.
Notre dissuasion nucléaire nous protÚge et continuera à nous protéger.
Vive la République et vive la France.
Mathieu Charles retweeted
I love this. Two vandals destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary in Corsica.
They were caught and arrested.
Now Corsicans have turned up in front of the police station, with two coffins and the vandal's names written on them.
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Guerre hybride de Poutine, «stratĂ©gie dâaffaiblissement thĂ©orisĂ©e par le gĂ©nĂ©ral Gerassimov en 2013: utiliser des moyens restant sous le seuil dâagression pour dĂ©crĂ©dibiliser les gouvernements europĂ©ens et faciliter la prise de pouvoir par des partis complaisants.» @InstitutFMES
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Le post qui mâa inspirĂ© mon texte sur le wokisme, qui a fait 80 millions de vues et a Ă©tĂ© repris par des dizaines de mĂ©dias dans le monde â Ă©trangement, trĂšs peu en France â, ne venait pas de nulle part.
Il est venu dâune conversation avec un intellectuel français, ancien ministre, extrĂȘmement intelligent.
La question était simple.
Comment la gauche a-t-elle pu gagner pendant soixante-dix ans en Occident, alors quâon savait dĂ©jĂ que le socialisme est une catastrophe ?
Sa rĂ©ponse mâa arrĂȘtĂ©.
« Câest trĂšs simple. Ils ont mis Hitler Ă lâextrĂȘme droite. »
Ă partir de lĂ , le piĂšge se referme tout seul.
Quiconque veut vendre du libĂ©ralisme et de la libertĂ© se retrouve, par construction, dans le camp dâen face. Et le camp dâen face, câest le nazisme.
Câest pour ça quâils traitent Elon Musk de nazi.
Câest pour ça quâils collent Javier Milei Ă lâextrĂȘme droite.
Câest pour ça quâune Sarah Knafo se fait traiter de xĂ©nophobe et de raciste. Ils nâont pas encore osĂ© « nazi » : elle est juive. Si elle ne lâavait pas Ă©tĂ©, ça serait dĂ©jĂ fait.
Le tour de passe-passe est vieux. On a redessinĂ© la carte. On a collĂ© le mot « droite » sur le cadavre du XXe siĂšcle, puis on a dĂ©clarĂ© que tout ce qui nâĂ©tait pas collectiviste touchait ce cadavre.
Câest pour ça que Milei a dit que Hitler Ă©tait socialiste. Que le nazisme, câĂ©tait du national-socialisme. Que le fascisme, lui aussi, est un socialisme : « tout dans lâĂtat, rien hors de lâĂtat ».
Câest pour ça que la leader de lâAfD dit maintenant, Ă voix haute, que Hitler menait une politique de gauche. Quâil nâĂ©tait pas un libĂ©ral. Quâil Ă©tait lâĂtat contre la personne.
La vérité commence à éclater un peu partout.
Pas parce quâune mode a changĂ©. Parce que le cadre mental qui tenait depuis 1945 se fissure. On ne peut plus interdire la question en criant « nazi ».
Cet empire du mensonge est en train de sâeffondrer. Et câest ça qui va le faire tomber : pas une bagarre de clans, le rĂ©tablissement du vocabulaire.
Les dettes des pays occidentaux ne sont pas un accident de parcours. Elles sont le bilan de décennies de politiques qui promettent la protection et livrent la dépendance.
Le wokisme nâest pas le cĆur du systĂšme. Câest lâĂ©cume. La derniĂšre couche de justification morale dâun collectivisme Ă bout de souffle.
Le vrai clivage nâest plus gauche / droite hĂ©ritĂ©e de 1945.
Câest ContrĂŽle contre LibertĂ©.
Dâun cĂŽtĂ©, tout le collectivisme, quel que soit le nom : socialisme, national-socialisme, planification, wokisme dâĂtat.
De lâautre, ceux qui veulent laisser les gens construire.
Nos ennemis ne sont pas des mauvaises personnes. Ce sont de mauvaises cartes mentales. La reconversion est possible.
Il est temps de rendre les mots.
Et dâaller construire.
Mathieu Charles retweeted
« Je suis de ceux qui pensent que dans cinquante ans la fortune consistera Ă pouvoir sâoffrir la vie du paysan aisĂ© du dĂ©but du XXe siĂšcle, Ă bien des Ă©gards, câest-Ă -dire de lâespace autour de soi, de lâair pur, des Ćufs frais, des poules Ă©levĂ©es avec du grain, etc. On y ajoute des piscines et des automobiles, mais ce nâest pas une modification fondamentale, il reste le besoin dâair, de puretĂ©, de libertĂ©âŠÂ »
Georges Pompidou
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Replying to @Albrochier
The tech bros love the cool magic artefacts but forget that the world was saved by hobbits who only wanted to see the shire again. These people don't have a shire and it shows
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Revolut just built a research lab around its own foundation model.
That's the new default for any bank that wants to win.
This morning, @Revolut launched Revolut Research, a dedicated division working with NVIDIA to keep pushing PRAGMA, the model it trained on its own customers' transaction histories.
The results they cite on historical data:
- 2.3x higher accuracy at spotting credit default risk
- 65% more fraud caught, with 17% more precise alerts
- 41% more relevant product recommendations
These results come from their PRAGMA paper published in April. This was a single foundation model trained on 26m customer events that beat the task-specific models on credit, fraud, and recommendations.
Now they're building a dedicated research lab for the effort. And I expect every large bank to do the same within 5 years. Smaller ones will have to outsource this R&D.
To be fair, Nubank got here first. It bought Hyperplane in 2024 and has run billion-parameter transaction models across 100m+ customers since last year. In their Q2 earnings, they cited NuFormer for a significant uplift in credit performance.
When the two fastest-growing banks with 180m+ customers between them landed on the same answer, there's a clue here. Train your own model on your own data!
Revolut says it will open-source the technical frameworks, which tells you where they think the moat is. The recipe is shareable. The 80m customers, 40+ markets and nearly a billion transactions a month stay in the building.
Head of AI Pavel Nesterov says: "You cannot rely on third-party blueprints." And I think that's right; I've seen companies try the off-the-shelf recipes for foundation models and get poor results with their data.
You need a lab and people who know what they're doing.
I expect this to be the dividing line for banks over the next five years. The ones training on their own data will price risk better than the ones renting a model and bolting it on.
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The leftoid position is now, without exaggeration: "diversity is our strength and there's nothing wrong with Muslim migrants, but Israel is using them to punish us"
Mathieu Charles retweeted
How does what Morocco has done to Ceuta differ from what the Algerians have done to BarbĂšs Rochechouart?
Exactly. Incentives explain outcomes.
On te vend depuis 40 ans que sans « sensibilité de gauche », les gens crÚvent de faim.
Câest exactement lâinverse de ce que disent les chiffres.
1990 : 2,3 milliards dâĂȘtres humains en pauvretĂ© extrĂȘme. 38 % de lâhumanitĂ©.
2025 : 808 millions. Environ 10 %.
1,5 milliard de personnes sorties de la misĂšre absolue en 35 ans.
La plus grande rĂ©duction de souffrance humaine de toute lâhistoire de lâespĂšce.
Qui a fait ça ?
Pas lâaide internationale.
Pas les ONG.
Pas les programmes de redistribution.
Pas la sensibilité de gauche.
Le marché.
Lâouverture commerciale.
La Chine de Deng qui abandonne le maoĂŻsme en 1978.
LâInde qui libĂ©ralise en 1991.
Le Vietnam, lâIndonĂ©sie, le Bangladesh qui sâouvrent au capitalisme.
Les seuls endroits oĂč lâextrĂȘme pauvretĂ© a explosĂ© sur la mĂȘme pĂ©riode ?
Le Venezuela socialiste (de 27 % à plus de 80 % en dix ans, inflation à 130 000 %, un Vénézuélien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos).
La Corée du Nord.
Cuba.
Le Zimbabwe de Mugabe.
La gauche ne nourrit pas les pauvres.
Elle les fabrique.
Le capitalisme produit tellement de richesse que mĂȘme ses « perdants » amĂ©ricains vivent mieux que la classe moyenne soviĂ©tique.
Un pauvre américain a un frigo, une voiture, un téléphone, la clim et internet.
Un pauvre cubain attend du riz.
Et le « social américain est un désastre » reste une légende française.
PIB par habitant US : 80 000 $.
France : 45 000 $.
Un Mississippien (lâĂtat le plus pauvre des Ătats-Unis) a un revenu mĂ©dian supĂ©rieur au Français moyen.
Dans un systÚme libéral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuée, et beaucoup moins de pauvres.
Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les périodes mesurées.
Ătre de gauche en 2026 face Ă ces donnĂ©es, ce nâest plus de la sensibilitĂ©.
Câest prĂ©fĂ©rer la posture morale aux rĂ©sultats.
La compassion sans rĂ©sultats, ça sâappelle de la vanitĂ©.
Grok is great for market analysis and brainstorming but when it comes to draing pictures for slides, it is thrash đ€Ł
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Cher @elonmusk,
Afin de te rendre les choses plus faciles, je tâoffre ce tableau du paysage politique français, quâon appelle aujourdâhui le « Socialistan ».
JâespĂšre que ça te sera utile.
Amicalement.
Jean-Jacques
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Adoptée ce soir par une courte majorité, la loi euthanasie est un basculement. Elle ouvre de graves brÚches dans la protection des plus fragiles : personnes ùgées, isolées ou handicapées. La conscience des personnels en établissement est ignorée. 1/2
lejdd.fr/Societe/euthanasie-âŠ
Mathieu Charles retweeted
Replying to @elonmusk
The only two political movements with a clearly economically liberal platform are Ăric Zemmour and Sarah Knafoâs ReconquĂȘte, and David Lisnardâs Nouvelle Ănergie.
For now, both are polling relatively low. But I believe todayâs polls are largely irrelevant because the real 2027 campaign has not even started yet. The political landscape will change dramatically once the campaign truly begins in September or October.
Zemmour peaked at nearly 20% during the previous presidential cycle before collapsing, which shows how quickly political momentum can shift.
I hope Marine Le Pen finally understands that if she does not address the economic issueâand, above all, abandon her statist and socialist platformâshe will not win. She may solve the immigration issue, but if she fails to fix the economy and allows Franceâs debt burden to keep rising, there is a serious risk that the far left will come to power five years later.
Mathieu Charles retweeted
The Road to Serfdom made simple:
1. Plan the whole economy: someone must decide what gets made and who gets what, since people donât naturally agree on one set of priorities. Every economy is millions of simultaneous decisions. A plan requires someone to override all of them â which means someone must have the power to do so.
2. These decisions are too big and detailed for normal democratic debate, so power shifts to a smaller group who can just act â technocrats. Parliaments are too slow, too divided, too accountable. The plan needs someone who can simply decide. Emergency powers, expert committees, regulatory agencies. Democratic legitimacy becomes an obstacle to efficiency.
3. Fixed laws everyone can rely on get replaced by case-by-case rulings, because a plan needs flexibility, not predictability. Rule of law requires knowing in advance what the rules are. A plan requires adjusting them as conditions change. The moment the rules become flexible, they are no longer rules â they are instruments.
4. Dissent becomes a problem to manage, not an opinion to vote on â the plan canât work if people are free to ignore it. Opposition stops being legitimate political competition and becomes sabotage. The language follows: enemies of progress, deniers, those who put their selfish interests above the common good.
5. Enforcing all that selects for people most willing to be ruthless â Hayekâs âworst get on topâ â i.e. negative moral selection. The scrupulous drop out. The system rewards those who can enforce without hesitation, punish without guilt, and comply without question. Over time it doesnât just attract the worst â it produces them.
6. Since economics touches everything â your job, your home, your speech, your childrenâs education, your access to healthcare â controlling the economy ends up controlling your whole life. There is no private sphere left, because every private decision has an economic dimension, and the economy belongs to the plan. Thatâs the serfdom.
7. Hayekâs insight was not that government is always wrong. It was that the logic of planning is self-compounding â each step makes the next one necessary, each power grab requires a larger one to enforce it. You donât plan your way to serfdom. You slide, one reasonable emergency measure at a time, until the slide is the system.
Atlas Shrugged made simple:
1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers â industrialists, inventors, engineers â whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted.
2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more youâre expected to sacrifice for those who arenât.
3. Success gets treated like a debt â taxed, regulated, resented â until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all.
4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw â walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing.
5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the âautomaticâ prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people.
6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever â Randâs stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it.
7. âShruggedâ is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesnât fight, doesnât protest â he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isnât.
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