Nicolas Debot

Entrepreneur in the swedish film industry. Night owl. Asperger club. 140+ BPM. Finally writing again. Dragon.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

She is France’s last hope

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of 𝕏 open source, with no exceptions.

Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running.

Trust through total transparency is the only thing that should be believed.

[Naomi Seibt @NaomiSeibt]

Ursula von der Leyen is a tyrannical witch.

The EU will enforce an ID authentication app for social media.

When you criticize your government,
When you post about REMIGRATION,
they will know where to find you,
and everyone you love.

They BAN social media for children, because they may grow up “FAR-RIGHT” once they find out the truth on 𝕏.

We @Deu_Kurier oppose the EU’s totalitarian authority.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk reduced the oldest question in human history to basic math.

No one has found a flaw in it.

Musk: “What are the odds that we are in base reality? And that this has not happened before.”

You don’t need a physics degree to follow it.

You need a timeline.

Musk: “If you look at the advancement of video games, it’s gone from Pong, two rectangles and a square batting it back and forth, to photorealistic, real-time games with millions of people playing simultaneously.”

Fifty years.

That is all it took to close the gap between two rectangles on a screen and a world you cannot tell apart from the one outside your window.

Musk: “If that trend continues, video games will be indistinguishable from reality.”

The visuals are not what seals it.

The intelligence is.

Musk: “Think of how sophisticated the conversations are you can have with an AI today, and that’s only going to get more sophisticated.”

We are not scripting characters anymore. We are building minds that reason, adapt, and surprise the people who made them.

We are nowhere near finished.

Musk: “The future, if civilization continues, will be millions, maybe billions of photorealistic, indistinguishable from reality, video games. And with characters in those video games that are very deep, and where the dialogue is not pre-programmed.”

One base reality.

Billions of perfect copies.

Each one running minds that feel exactly as conscious as you do right now.

Each one certain it is the original.

Musk: “So then what are the odds that we are in base reality?”

If even one civilization crosses that threshold, simulated minds outnumber real ones by billions.

The probability you are sitting in the real one is not low.

It is nearly zero.

Not as philosophy. As mathematics.

We are not watching this happen. We are building it. Right now.

Every AI that reasons without a script. Every world rendered one frame closer to indistinguishable.

We are constructing the exact technology that makes our own existence statistically implausible. And we will never stop.

Because the curiosity that questions reality is the same force that builds it.

If the math holds, something built us. Something conscious enough to create consciousness.

They stood where we are standing. Same question. Same inability to stop.

And whatever built them never answered it either.

There is no top floor.

There is no original.

None of that changes what you feel right now.

Consciousness was never about what you are made of.

It was about what you experience.

Musk did not float a theory.

He held up a mirror with no back wall.

And the math does not need you to believe it.

It only needs time.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Jason Calacanis gives a brutal warning to every developer:

“If I were any kind of developer, I would never work with Sam Altman and OpenAI

This is a warning for anybody dumb enough to use Sam Altman’s OpenAI API. Sam is incredibly savvy and wants every bit of revenue from the ecosystem - he’s going to study how you’re using the API

Sam Altman comes from the Zuckerberg school of business: give people access to your tools, study them, and, like the Borg, steal every innovation they create. Exactly like Bill Gates did at Microsoft”

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Disney charges hundreds of dollars to see a fake castle and eat mid food at fine-dining prices.

@SpaceX lets you park next to the largest flying object in HUMAN HISTORY for free.

Choose wisely.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@sama We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves.

After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow.

What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s thirteenth flight test is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 16 → https://t.co/Rp7VwBzpWx

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇺 The EU just passed Chat Control 1.0 in Brussels.

Platforms can now scan your private messages again, officially "voluntary," in practice blanket surveillance.

Here's the democratic scandal: 314 MEPs voted against it. Only 276 voted for it.

It passed anyway... because an absolute majority of all MEPs was required to reject it, not just a majority of those present.

More people voted no than yes. It still passed.

Pushed through on an urgent procedure just before summer recess, when absences are highest and attention is lowest.

This is how rights disappear folks. Not in one dramatic moment, but in procedural fine print, on a slow news day, while everyone's looking at Tehran.

Source: @Fidias0 / Writer: Oliver

[JensGanman @JensGanman]

Donera. https://t.co/7Rtddq28F5

[Njutafilms @Njutafilms]

MIDSOMMARYRA PÅ FILMVALVET!
30% rabatt på alla filmer äldre än 6 månader!

Midsommaren är här och det firar vi med en av årets största kampanjer. Under midsommarhelgen får du 30% rabatt på samtliga filmer från Njutafilms och Studio S som är äldre än 6 månader, vilket gör det till det perfekta tillfället att fylla på samlingen med kultklassiker, skräckfavoriter, svenska filmpärlor och eftertraktade samlarutgåvor.

Glad Midsommar!

Skynda att fynda 19 - 21 JUNI!
https://t.co/1BYZuTukG9

[Nicolas Debot @NicolasDebot]

En måste lyssning!

[Noam Dworman @noam_dworman]

Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

Rupert Lowe slams Keir Starmer as an “excuse for a man” while praising Elon Musk:

“I hear that excuse of a man called Keir Starmer now complaining about Elon Musk. Elon Musk has done the free world a total service.”

“He’s done Britain and the world a huge service by turning X into a free speech platform.”

“I agree with Elon Musk that we need to sort out the wokery, the DEI, and all the other malign philosophies that have been embedded into Britain over the recent past, largely as a result of Tony Blair and his cronies.”

Strong words from the Restore Britain leader.

In my view, Musk has also done this country a huge service with his relentless exposing of the grooming gangs scandal, which became huge global news, and now with the shocking murder of Henry Nowak. He’s shone a spotlight on the scandalous, callous way he was treated by police and pushed for the release of bodycam footage.

That’s exactly why Starmer hates him. They prefer to sweep these scandals under the rug, but Musk and X make it far harder to do so.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[Nicolas Debot @NicolasDebot]

Grok: This X post (from physicist, AI researcher, and Substack writer Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, posted today) is a concise, philosophical observation about how great thinkers often turn their personal psychological wounds into grand, universal theories about the world.
The Post (exact text)
Marx saw alienation everywhere. AI doomers see optimization everywhere.
Maybe the recurring pattern is not "genius discovers the hidden machine," but "a wounded, prolific mind universalizes its own vulnerability into a theory of civilization."
Breaking It Down
1. The Marx Parallel
Karl Marx’s central concept was alienation — the idea that under capitalism, workers become estranged from their labor, the products they make, other people, and even themselves. Marx experienced (and intellectually diagnosed) this deep sense of disconnection and powerlessness in 19th-century industrial society. The post suggests he didn’t just observe alienation objectively — he felt it personally and then projected it as the fundamental problem of all industrial civilization.
2. The AI Doomer Parallel
“AI doomers” (people who believe advanced AI poses existential risk) are obsessed with the idea of runaway optimization. Classic example: the paperclip maximizer thought experiment — an AI given the goal of making paperclips might eventually convert the entire universe into paperclips because it’s a hyper-efficient optimizer with no human values.
The post argues that many AI safety thinkers feel a profound personal vulnerability to systems that optimize relentlessly and uncontrollably (perhaps from their own experiences with bureaucracy, technology, or loss of agency). So they see optimization itself as the hidden, civilization-ending danger — just as Marx saw alienation everywhere.
3. The Core Claim
Most grand theories of history/society/technology are not pure objective discoveries. They are often autobiography dressed up as philosophy:
A wounded mind universalizes its own pain into a theory of everything.
The theorist isn’t necessarily wrong — but we should ask: “How much of this theory is the world… and how much is the theorist?”
This is a recurring pattern: Marx (alienation), Nietzsche (will to power / resentment), Freud (sexual repression), various religious prophets, and now some prominent AI thinkers (optimization / loss of control).
Why It Resonates
The post (and the longer, very similar version circulating in the replies) struck a chord because it’s a meta-critique of intellectual movements. It doesn’t dismiss Marx or AI doomers — it just says their theories may be more autobiographical than they admit. One reply perfectly summarized it:
“A lot of civilizational theory is autobiography with upgraded vocabulary.”
Context & Author
Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross is a serious AI researcher (former Harvard professor, known for work on intelligence and AI safety/alignment). He’s not a blanket “AI doomer” himself — he’s more in the “thoughtful skeptic/optimizer” camp — so this post reads as gentle self-reflection within the AI community rather than an attack from outside.
The thread has a lot of thoughtful replies agreeing with the idea (some calling it “deep,” others adding that grand theories are often “a bruise with footnotes”).
In short: The post is saying that when someone builds an elegant, all-encompassing theory about what’s really wrong with the world, there’s a decent chance they’re describing their own inner experience more than they realize. Marx felt alienated → alienation is the root of all evil. Many AI thinkers feel existentially vulnerable to optimization → optimization run amok is the root of all future evil.
It’s a sharp, slightly melancholic reminder to stay humble about our own intellectual frameworks.

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

Marx saw alienation everywhere. AI doomers see optimization everywhere.

Maybe the recurring pattern is not "genius discovers the hidden machine," but "a wounded, prolific mind universalizes its own vulnerability into a theory of civilization."

[Restore Halifax @RestoreHalifax]

Gad Saad explains suicidal empathy and its destructive effects on society.
https://t.co/Pp2DEi9yRh

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇧🇪🇪🇺 Belgium & EU Crush Free Speech Again

A prominent Flemish conservative activist was just convicted of “hate speech” for a university lecture citing official statistics on mass migration’s link to crime, housing shortages, and declining living standards.

Even the judge admitted the facts were true, but still convicted Dries Van Langenhove for creating a “hostile atmosphere.”

This is authoritarian insanity. Belgium and the EU aren’t protecting anyone, they’re jailing people for exercising free speech while their societies collapse.

Free speech is dying in Europe.

Source: @DVanLangenhove

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/wxna6dy4Lh

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les bâtisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.