Locally reversing entropy

Paris, France
Joined October 2011
I’m a firm believer that the 2019 Notre Dame fire was intentional.. France has had its warnings 

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Macron doit dĂ©missionner . L’armĂ©e doit ĂȘtre positionnĂ© pour la prochaine manif L’ordre de tirer sur les pillards doit ĂȘtre donnĂ© . Il faut sonner la fin de la rĂ©crĂ©e
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Reality is much more difficult than most of us realize. How do I know? Because AI keeps outperforming every expectation on formal tests – programming, maths – 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 – proofs, code, rules. What was easy for us – reading a face, sensing a lie, knowing a plan won’t work – 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 – 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 can’t – and that is why we keep underestimating it, in machines and in men.
Pourquoi David Lisnard semble-t-il manquer d’assurance ? Parce qu’il est honnĂȘte. Il sait que la rĂ©alitĂ© est difficile. C’est toute la diffĂ©rence avec ces menteurs qui dĂ©versent leurs mensonges avec l’assurance totale des ignorants qu’ils sont. Un homme honnĂȘte sonne comme David Lisnard. Pas comme le bureaucrate irresponsable qui n’a aucun mal Ă  aligner de belles phrases sans le moindre rapport avec la rĂ©alitĂ©. Le doute n’est pas un dĂ©faut de caractĂšre. C’est le prix de l’honnĂȘtetĂ©. Un type bien et honnĂȘte se remet en question. Le beau parleur pompeux et irresponsable – jamais. Et Ă  la fin, c’est celui qui doute qui a tout juste. Il ne se fait pas aveuglĂ©ment confiance – c’est pour cela qu’on peut lui faire confiance. Bravo, David Lisnard ! đŸ‡«đŸ‡·đŸ—œ
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À bord de la frĂ©gate multi-missions Auvergne, j'ai assistĂ© au premier tir du nouveau missile balistique M51.3 depuis le sous-marin nuclĂ©aire lanceur d'engins Le Vigilant. TrĂšs peu de nations disposent d'un tel savoir-faire. FĂ©licitations Ă  tous les acteurs de cette rĂ©ussite exceptionnelle : DGA, CEA, Ariane Group, Naval Group et Marine nationale. Votre professionnalisme, votre rigueur et votre maĂźtrise technique sont la fiertĂ© de la France. Ce succĂšs technique est une nouvelle dĂ©monstration de la crĂ©dibilitĂ© de notre dissuasion, dont la pĂ©rennitĂ© est assurĂ©e. 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 manƓuvrants, qui Ă©quiperont notre composante aĂ©rienne de dissuasion, a Ă©tĂ© lancĂ© cette annĂ©e. Notre dissuasion nuclĂ©aire nous protĂšge et continuera Ă  nous protĂ©ger. Vive la RĂ©publique et vive la France.
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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.
En rĂ©ponse aux deux 🔔🔔 qui ont commis un sacrilĂšge sur la statue de la vierge , voilĂ  ce qui a Ă©tĂ© dĂ©posĂ© devant la gendarmerie de Porto-Vecchio.
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Guerre hybride de Poutine, «stratĂ©gie d’affaiblissement thĂ©orisĂ©e par le gĂ©nĂ©ral Gerassimov en 2013: utiliser des moyens restant sous le seuil d’agression pour dĂ©crĂ©dibiliser les gouvernements europĂ©ens et faciliter la prise de pouvoir par des partis complaisants.» @InstitutFMES
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Le post qui m’a 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 — Ă©trangement, trĂšs peu en France —, ne venait pas de nulle part. Il est venu d’une conversation avec un intellectuel français, ancien ministre, extrĂȘmement intelligent. La question Ă©tait simple. Comment la gauche a-t-elle pu gagner pendant soixante-dix ans en Occident, alors qu’on savait dĂ©jĂ  que le socialisme est une catastrophe ? Sa rĂ©ponse m’a arrĂȘtĂ©. « C’est trĂšs simple. Ils ont mis Hitler Ă  l’extrĂȘme droite. » À 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 d’en face. Et le camp d’en face, c’est le nazisme. C’est pour ça qu’ils traitent Elon Musk de nazi. C’est pour ça qu’ils collent Javier Milei Ă  l’extrĂȘme droite. C’est pour ça qu’une Sarah Knafo se fait traiter de xĂ©nophobe et de raciste. Ils n’ont pas encore osĂ© « nazi » : elle est juive. Si elle ne l’avait 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 n’était pas collectiviste touchait ce cadavre. C’est pour ça que Milei a dit que Hitler Ă©tait socialiste. Que le nazisme, c’était du national-socialisme. Que le fascisme, lui aussi, est un socialisme : « tout dans l’État, rien hors de l’État ». C’est pour ça que la leader de l’AfD dit maintenant, Ă  voix haute, que Hitler menait une politique de gauche. Qu’il n’était pas un libĂ©ral. Qu’il Ă©tait l’État contre la personne. La vĂ©ritĂ© commence Ă  Ă©clater un peu partout. Pas parce qu’une 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 s’effondrer. Et c’est 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 dĂ©cennies de politiques qui promettent la protection et livrent la dĂ©pendance. Le wokisme n’est pas le cƓur du systĂšme. C’est l’écume. La derniĂšre couche de justification morale d’un collectivisme Ă  bout de souffle. Le vrai clivage n’est plus gauche / droite hĂ©ritĂ©e de 1945. C’est ContrĂŽle contre LibertĂ©. D’un cĂŽtĂ©, tout le collectivisme, quel que soit le nom : socialisme, national-socialisme, planification, wokisme d’État. De l’autre, 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 d’aller construire.
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« Je suis de ceux qui pensent que dans cinquante ans la fortune consistera Ă  pouvoir s’offrir la vie du paysan aisĂ© du dĂ©but du XXe siĂšcle, Ă  bien des Ă©gards, c’est-Ă -dire de l’espace autour de soi, de l’air pur, des Ɠufs frais, des poules Ă©levĂ©es avec du grain, etc. On y ajoute des piscines et des automobiles, mais ce n’est pas une modification fondamentale, il reste le besoin d’air, de puretĂ©, de liberté  » Georges Pompidou
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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
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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.
đŸ€– Made with AI
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Replying to @TribunePop23
If they do this, they will be international criminals
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Replying to @zerohedge
I demand that she be shut down for treason against France!
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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"
Spanish actor Javier Bardem says The migration of 60,000 people from Morocco to Spain was planned by Israel because Spain opposes the genocide in Palestine
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How does what Morocco has done to Ceuta differ from what the Algerians have done to BarbĂšs Rochechouart?
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Exactly. Incentives explain outcomes.
On te vend depuis 40 ans que sans « sensibilitĂ© de gauche », les gens crĂšvent de faim. C’est exactement l’inverse de ce que disent les chiffres. 1990 : 2,3 milliards d’ĂȘtres humains en pauvretĂ© extrĂȘme. 38 % de l’humanitĂ©. 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 l’histoire de l’espĂšce. Qui a fait ça ? Pas l’aide internationale. Pas les ONG. Pas les programmes de redistribution. Pas la sensibilitĂ© de gauche. Le marchĂ©. L’ouverture commerciale. La Chine de Deng qui abandonne le maoĂŻsme en 1978. L’Inde qui libĂ©ralise en 1991. Le Vietnam, l’IndonĂ©sie, le Bangladesh qui s’ouvrent au capitalisme. Les seuls endroits oĂč l’extrĂȘme pauvretĂ© a explosĂ© sur la mĂȘme pĂ©riode ? Le Venezuela socialiste (de 27 % Ă  plus de 80 % en dix ans, inflation Ă  130 000 %, un VĂ©nĂ©zuĂ©lien moyen qui a perdu 11 kilos). La CorĂ©e 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 amĂ©ricain a un frigo, une voiture, un tĂ©lĂ©phone, la clim et internet. Un pauvre cubain attend du riz. Et le « social amĂ©ricain est un dĂ©sastre » reste une lĂ©gende française. PIB par habitant US : 80 000 $. France : 45 000 $. Un Mississippien (l’État le plus pauvre des États-Unis) a un revenu mĂ©dian supĂ©rieur au Français moyen. Dans un systĂšme libĂ©ral, il y a plus de richesse créée, plus largement distribuĂ©e, et beaucoup moins de pauvres. Partout. Sans exception. Sur toutes les pĂ©riodes mesurĂ©es. Être de gauche en 2026 face Ă  ces donnĂ©es, ce n’est plus de la sensibilitĂ©. C’est prĂ©fĂ©rer la posture morale aux rĂ©sultats. La compassion sans rĂ©sultats, ça s’appelle de la vanitĂ©.
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Grok is great for market analysis and brainstorming but when it comes to draing pictures for slides, it is thrash đŸ€Ł
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Cher @elonmusk, Afin de te rendre les choses plus faciles, je t’offre ce tableau du paysage politique français, qu’on appelle aujourd’hui le « Socialistan ». J’espĂšre que ça te sera utile. Amicalement. Jean-Jacques
Replying to @brivael
Is any major party in France not socialist?
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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-

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Replying to @elonmusk
The only two political movements with a clearly economically liberal platform are Éric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo’s ReconquĂȘte, and David Lisnard’s Nouvelle Énergie. For now, both are polling relatively low. But I believe today’s 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 issue—and, above all, abandon her statist and socialist platform—she will not win. She may solve the immigration issue, but if she fails to fix the economy and allows France’s debt burden to keep rising, there is a serious risk that the far left will come to power five years later.
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The Road to Serfdom made simple: 1. Plan the whole economy: someone must decide what gets made and who gets what, since people don’t naturally agree on one set of priorities. Every economy is millions of simultaneous decisions. A plan requires someone to override all of them – 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 – 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 – they are instruments. 4. Dissent becomes a problem to manage, not an opinion to vote on – the plan can’t 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 — Hayek’s “worst get on top” — 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 doesn’t just attract the worst – it produces them. 6. Since economics touches everything — your job, your home, your speech, your children’s education, your access to healthcare — 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. That’s the serfdom. 7. Hayek’s insight was not that government is always wrong. It was that the logic of planning is self-compounding – each step makes the next one necessary, each power grab requires a larger one to enforce it. You don’t 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 – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted. 2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t. 3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – 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 – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing. 5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” 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 – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it. 7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t. You don’t want us? We just goâ€ŠđŸ€·đŸ»â€â™‚ïž
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