Lucien Gauthier

Sailor, cryptologist, Dad.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@cdrsalamander More and more I hear others say ‘Taiwan isn’t gonna happen’. More and more I remind people that there’s also the SCS.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@exploreplanets Blame games like Civilization. For decades I’ve had despotic power over the tech tree. This is now manifest. /s

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@CynicalPublius Go further back. Marx studied Epicureanism, and wrote his thesis on it.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@DJSnM Which Chemical Bros track did you match to the X-15?

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

This is uncanny. Reliant on technology that doesn’t have a price point, and is anti-family with the ‘per-person’ monthly cost.

Socialism as a revenue stream.

[Elysium Communities @ElysiumOnX]

POV: Your rent now includes 2 chef-made meals a day, farm-fresh food, Tesla access on demand (and zero car payments). Starting $1,925/month.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@DrPhiltill The PRC removed $10T in property value—the majority of net worth for Chinese citizens. Their population peaked ~5 years ago. Their municipal debt loads are massive. And the Confucian tradition has kids care for parents—no social net.

I don’t share your assessment.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@zenpundit Your uncle’s method is basically what I did reading about Boyd.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@McCainJack But, let’s debate which warfare device gets to be CO. Rather than talk about SWO culture/mentality that is the real heart of the problem.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@pmarca Read: Phaedrus 274c–276a. Doxosophia is an epic concept from Plato. He used the term to describe the effect of writing, and it’s applicable to what LLMs do 10x compared to the mere written word. The dialectic matters.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@mmjukic Plato did a very long time ago: Doxosophia, the appearance/conceit of wisdom. Phaedrus 274c–276a

You also haven’t seen anyone make a comparison, because it doesn’t (yet) exist. With LLMs almost certainly unable to achieve AGI.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@michaelxpettis Their last hope will be robots. If they don’t figure out autonomous human-like robots, they’ll subcome to the next super bubble.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@TylerAlterman My 7 year old plays Toca Boca. It’s dolls with cities worth of doll houses in a game.

I pay $10 and she gets what would cost $200 if they were Barbie’s.

She then finds images of the dolls and does her favorite thing—paper dolls. Cuts them out, colors them. Like it’s 1910.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@250YearsAgoLive This is some twitter 2008 stuff, before it all went to shit.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@SciGuySpace I missed that story of yours, my bad.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@Jenakuns @SciGuySpace I don’t follow everything with minute detail. So, I’m very open to being corrected on this.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@curiouswavefn @pmarca Yeah, I know what you mean. AI isn’t an answer machine, it’s more like a conceptual calculator. It enables something a lot like a dialectic to work through thoughts that would otherwise be bogged down in searching for supporting information.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@cspan Decades of SACEURs and SECDEFs and POTUSes raised the need for Europe and Canada to contribute more. None of them were Trump with the inaction leading to Trump.

[Lucien Gauthier @Surface_Sailor]

@MattVadum @Osint613 Last time something like this happened in ‘87, the gulf states provided free fuel for USN ships.

[Peter Ottsjö @peterottsjo]

More than 15 years ago, a physicist had an outrageous idea. It was dismissed as impossible.

Now here we are, with a device that is pure engineering madness. And it could quite literally change how we view biology. 🧵 (1/7)