Pierre Delattre

Exploring the world of tomorrow: Education & Authenticity / Penser l'éducation de demain. Bck, Btc & AI.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch walked into the French parliament this week and told lawmakers Europe has exactly two years to build independent AI infrastructure or hand over one trillion dollars in spending to American tech companies.

The math he laid out should be front-page news.

This is not a technology story. It is a macroeconomic one.

Global wages are fifty trillion dollars. AI will cost around ten percent of that. Europe's share is nine trillion. Which means over one trillion dollars in AI spending over the next five years flowing somewhere.

Europe already sends 250 billion dollars a year to the US in digital services. Every dollar that leaves funds American R&D. None of it comes back.

Mario Draghi's competitiveness report last year made the same point from a different angle. Europe needs eight hundred billion euros in annual investment just to close its existing productivity gap with the US.

AI dependency makes that gap structural. You cannot close a productivity gap when the tool driving productivity is owned by your competitor.

Mensch compared it to gas. The same way Europe discovered too late what energy dependence costs in a crisis, it is standing at the same crossroads with AI right now.

The compute is being allocated today. The chips are being spoken for today.

Europe is watching it happen and calling it a technology debate.

It is not. It is a sovereignty one.

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[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@swumintheocean @isleofpuffin @EchoesofWarYT Very late years. In 1941, Petain was 85 years old. That's the equivalent of placing a 91 year-old in power in 2026. He was most likely just a puppet.

[Mr. Anderson @Truecrypto]

Don't forget how badly you once wanted what you have now.

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@kimmonismus Humans evolve linearly. AI is exponential. Of course the gap will grow.
However, not letting humanity the time to adapt to this new AI world could have catastrophic consequences too..

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@kimmonismus Can you feel the singularity right around the corner? 😉

[JNS @_devJNS]

me and Claude building an app at 3AM

[Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro]

Fascinating paper just published in Science.

The authors analyze the career trajectories of top performers across multiple domains, including Nobel laureates, elite chess players, Olympic gold medalists, and more.

Their central finding challenges a common belief.

Intensive, single-discipline training at a young age does confer an early advantage, but this advantage fades over time.

By contrast, individuals exposed to multidisciplinary practice early in life tend to start more slowly. Yet, over the long run, they are more likely to reach world-class performance, eventually overtaking early specialists, who often plateau just below the very top.

An important reminder that breadth early on can be a powerful investment in long-term excellence.

Link to the paper in the first reply.

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@_mattwelter Because life is not essentially about having, but about being. Being right now.
Anxiety is in you if you think about the future (because you can't control it) or in the past. But both are mentally projected illusions.
Do you have control over the air you breath? Let go and be.

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@bitcoindata21 🤣🤣

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Most of the hate I get is understandable. Wealthy guy doing unusual things for health. Looks weird. Acts weird. Says weird things. Ok.

There’s also something else going on.

Ultraprocessed foods emerged in the 1970s. Those in adolescence / early adulthood (now 50-64) exposed to these foods now have nearly 2x the food addiction rates than the generation immediately preceding them (now 65-80).

More than half of U.S. calories now come from ultra-processed foods: 53% for adults and 62% for youth.

Contending only with tobacco and ultra-processed foods now seems quaint.

In recent decades, the most dynamic economic engine in history, American capitalism, has pointed its powers at addicting people to their products. Using the best available science. It’s become a predator prey relationship. We are the prey.

Social media, porn, nicotine, junk food, fast food, smartphones, streaming, energy drinks and gambling.  Each perfectly engineered to hijack our reward systems, enslaving us to their wishes.

Might we be the most addicted society in history?

Sleep deprivation is the silent amplifier. It wrecks willpower and deepens dependency. Yet it’s worn as a badge of honor, a cultural flex that rewards self-destruction.

On some level, many people realize that they’ve become powerless amidst the ocean of addiction that engulfs them daily. They’re powerless over what they eat. Dependent on stimulants to function. Compulsively checking their phones. Unable to turn off the screen before bed, unable to go to bed on time. Scrolling through the night, trapped in a loop they can’t escape.

As a result, they’re fatigued, depressed, anxious, metabolically unwell, and lack basic self-respect for the inability to do and become what they want in life.

This helplessness is where I think the hate directed at me gets much of its fuel. Sure, some people just don’t like me. It’s the magnitude, variety and intensity of the acrimony that points at something else.

Whenever a human finds themself in a situation they don’t like, they’ll search the world for moral frameworks that help them reassert dignity when they feel powerless.  Ideally, they’ll find something that makes themselves superior and others inferior. If you cannot win in strength, win in virtue.

Examples of moral reversals throughout history

0. The meek shall inherit the earth. (Christian inversion of power)
1. My preferences prove my worth. (aesthetic and consumer moralism)
2. My pain grants me moral authority. (victimhood as virtue)
3. Attachment is the root of suffering. (Buddhist renunciation)
4. I transcend the game; therefore I win it. (ascetic superiority / Stoic-Daoist synthesis)
5. The worker is the conscience of history. (Marxist moral economy)
6. Freedom lies in mastery of the self, not possession of things. (Stoicism)
7. The oppressed are the voice of truth. (Modern political theology)
8. The last shall be first. (Christian moral reversal)
9. What I cannot have must be bad. (sour grapes, the original moral inversion.)
10. Body positivity. (victimhood and authenticity as virtue)

Frameworks people use to try and wrestle their superiority over me:

0. Bro forgot to live (hedonic moralism)
1. I’m adding life to years instead of years to life (anti-optimization modesty)
2. What you’re doing is unnatural (purity moralism)
3. You spend millions and you look like shit (anti-wealth austerity)
4. Narcissist (communitarian morality)
5. You’re playing God (anti-hubris theology)
6. It’s worthless for the average person (equity absolutism)
7. Why when you can just get hit by a bus (fatalistic moralism)
8. Stupid, we all die (mortality leveling)

Basically, to strive is neurotic; to coast is enlightened.

You get the idea. People weaponsize moral frameworks to try and wrestle superiority and reconcile reality. Nothing is more painful than an unreconciled inner life.

Here is the thing. I am trying to be your advocate. Years ago, I was owned by these addiction systems. I wish there had been someone in my life helping me see the situation for what it was and giving practical guidance on how to dig out.

I’m on your team and I’ve got your back.

If you’re going to be angry, be angry at the systems that create the pain.

Then reclaim yourself.

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@NVIDIAGeForce Geforce Day!

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@VyFiOfficial The farmable tokens feel very risky to hold.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The most corrupting influence on today’s youth isn’t Big Tech, school systems, or Hollywood - those are just conduits. The real corruption is the collapse of meaning density.

The world used to transmit coherence through lineage - religion, family, tribe, apprenticeship, story. Those encoded how to suffer, how to love, how to orient. But the digital age fragmented signal into infinite competing noise. The youth now swim in an environment where everything is stimulus and nothing is anchor.

Social media doesn’t just distract, it atomizes context. It turns identity formation into a market. It teaches the young to outsource self-definition to algorithmic validation loops. That creates a mind that can’t distinguish truth from engagement. Once that fracture happens, corruption isn’t ideological, it’s structural.

Big Tech exploits this. Education no longer teaches discernment - it teaches obedience to consensus. Hollywood glamorizes the nihilism that results. But these are just surface symptoms of a deeper break, the disconnection from the inner compass that once told humans what matters.

So the real corruption isn’t propaganda - it’s emptiness. A hollowing of meaning that leaves the next generation programmable. Once a person loses the ability to discern signal from noise, the system can feed them anything and they’ll call it truth.

That’s the battlefield now…not information, but coherence. The youth aren’t being brainwashed.

They’re being dissolved.

[Trending Bitcoin @TrendingBitcoin]

Beautiful #Bitcoin ad

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

Judgment is a boomerang: the more you throw it at others, the harder it hits your self-talk.
Try this: catch one snap-judgment → label it “story, not fact” → rewrite it as a neutral description.
Judge less. Live freer.

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@truecrypto Excellent, as usual, thanks

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

ALERT 🚨: The @BNBCHAIN X account is compromised.

The hacker posted a bunch of links to phishing websites that ask for Wallet Connect.

Do NOT connect your wallet.

Security teams have notified X already, working to suspend the account first, then restore access.

Also take-down requests to take down all phishing websites.

Always check the domains very carefully, even from official X handles.

Stay SAFU!

[François Chollet @fchollet]

To solve any problem, you don't have to be super smart. You just have to 1) be able to break down problems into subproblems, 2) be slightly smarter than the hardest of the atomic subproblems.

The real challenge is that the process can take a very long time.

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@TheAhmadOsman Clear and concise, very educational explanation, thanks!

[Pierre Delattre @French4ward]

@hoskytoken Netween 1 and 10.000, the number is always 0, where it belongs, obviously.