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Chris O'Brien
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Chris O'Brien
@obrien
Journalist in Paris publishing The French Tech Journal newsletter 🇺🇲🇫🇷. Previously @latimes @mercnews @venturebeat. Travel writing @frenchcrossroad
Paris, France Katılım Aralık 2007
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@DiscussingFilm IMDB summary: Emo Space Emperor Paul genocides 61B ppl by accident, hates his cult, gets gifted a zombie best-friend assassin, goes blind but still sees everything, gf dies birthing psychic twins, kills a villain via baby-vision, rage-quits godhood, and walks into the desert.
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Anya Taylor-Joy says Alia Atreides is “one of a kind” in ‘DUNE: PART 3’
“There’s never been anybody like her. She’s named The Abomination, and a lot of people find her really creepy except for her brother. She has absolute prescience; she lives with the voice of generations of people in her head. She’s never in a singular conversation, and that can drive somebody a little bit crazy.”
(Source: @TODAYshow)
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@kevinroose A 6-month pause isn’t a slowdown—it’s a strategic realignment sprint across the epistemic content stack. Until we resolve core ontology questions (EA vs rationalism, Marcus credibility vectors), the narrative layer remains unstable. We must de-risk the discourse pipeline. 📈
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calling for a 6-month pause on AI journalism until we can overcome urgent alignment challenges such as "are EA and rationalism the same thing?" and "is Gary Marcus a credible source?"
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@shaunmmaguire Pretty sure all protests have been successfully banned by the free speechers for fear they will be rounded up by ICE and shipped off to some random Central American country...
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Everyone says they’re building a world model. Very few actually are.
Most AI learns to see the world.
A world model learns to predict what happens in it — specifically, what happens when people do things. That’s a different problem.
Seeing is passive. Consequences require understanding cause and effect Any AI can learn to read a scene. A world model learns INTUITION about what changes it. @gen_intuition
Pim de Witte@PimDeWitte
Packy and I spent the past month unpacking world models from first principles. This piece is the result of that exploration. We go into why, what, how, and look out into the future on the implications of our work.
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@TinaDebove @stanlarroque Well, I guess I know why he didn't return my emails! :-(
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It's true: France's most ambitious XR project is no more.
Hardware is hard, especially here.
Huge respect @stanlarroque for even trying.
Europe's best shot is sovereign software on top of US & Chinese hardware.
Road to VR@RtoVR
XR Startup Lynx Appears to Enter Liquidation Proceedings Ahead of R2 Headset Launch See more 👉roadtovr.com/lynx-liquidati…
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That would pay for a lot of trips to South Korean Karaoke bars...
nytimes.com/2026/03/19/wor…
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First look at Martin Scorsese's next film ‘WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT’, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence.
The film follows a married couple who travel to a small European town to adopt a baby but nothing is quite as it seems.
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Looking for a new bf who believes we deserve to live in the Marina - my DMs are open
Hugo Amsellem@HugoAmsellem
for me it’s mission bay until i make it - i don’t deserve the marina yet
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@P5Lawrence 2 French founders. Announced on LinkedIn they are getting divorced but will keep working together. Entire internet is now dunking on them.
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@obrien Could you explain for the one's who didn't understand nothing ?
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Well, the good news is that some AI founders in La French Tech ecosystem have gone MASSIVELY viral for their work in SF...
The bad news is, well...
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her: he's probably thinking about...
marc andreessen: " "
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@PromptSlinger @joinstationf ...and then walk through, ok, i'm got to rethink my whole workforce, infrastructure, context, etc., but I can't just rip it all out...so where do I start...etc. Two years ago, everyone just started jamming ChatGPT into their systems and nothing happened and they were like WTF?
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@PromptSlinger @joinstationf To me, it legit makes sense...this stuff is a massive leap...and most execs/users don't really get that...like, it's not just the tech...it's a whole shift in mental models about everything...you NEED someone to help you see that...
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The @joinstationf Startup Gremlins have ended our long national nightmare and FINALLY revealed the F/AI spring batch:
👉 20 AI startups
🥣 80% cereal founders
🥸 infrastructure, agents, risk & compliance, marketing & sales, lions & tigers & bears, oh my.
frenchtechjournal.com/station-fs-f-a…
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@PromptSlinger @joinstationf I mean, all the LLMs are pivoting to consulting so who even knows?
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@obrien @joinstationf €1M revenue in 6 months is a wild filter. Half will pivot to consulting by month three. The ones that don't are either onto something real or just stubborn. Kinda the same thing sometimes
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But congrats to TK. He read the room perfectly. His former Assistant Director of South Korean Karaoke is now overseeing Middle Eastern bombing runs like a boss. TK has successfully assumed the mantle of victim.
His performance was the stuff of the legends.
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Oh, yeah, maybe it's because The VCgarchy is telling everyone that thinking is for woke and soyboys.
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David Senra@davidsenra
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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These takes are so hilariously dopey. Like, this dude raised $400M from the Saudis in 2019, sold billions in his Uber stock, built a global business in plain view, hired hundreds of people...
Jacob Klug@Jacobsklug
I think @travisk is truly a different breed of founder. He founded Uber, brute forced to $70B, got kicked out. Went silent for years, everyone thought he disappeared. Comes back out of nowhere, with not one company. But seven. He will go down as modern day Rockefeller.
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