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Travis Gregory
@undeadpickle.bsky.social
Proud girl dad x2 | Husband | Special needs dad💙 | Advocate for democracy, decency, and human rights✊ | Designer and dabbler in AI Filmmaking | Lover of 🔪horror, 🍹🌴Tiki, and good ☕️COFFEE!
"...And you still believe
This aristocracy gives a fuck about you
They put the mock in democracy
And you swallowed every hook"
- NOFX🤘
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"...Now with our conversations tapped
And our differences exposed
Now ya supposed to love your neighbor
With our minds and curtains closed?
We used to worry 'bout big brother
Now we got a big father and an even bigot mother..."
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"...We didn't raise our voice
We didn't make a fuss
It's funny, there was no one left to notice
When they came for us

Looks like witches are in season
You better fly your flag and be aware
Of anyone who might fit the description
Diversity is now our biggest fear..."
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM

"First, they put away the dealers
Keep our kids safe and off the street
Then they put away the prostitutes
Keep married men cloistered at home
Then they shooed away the bums
Then they beat and bashed the queers
Turned away asylum-seekers
Fed us suspicions and fears..."
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
October 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Bro knows he’s doomed. 💀🔥
October 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
He’s definitely gonna shit the bed.
August 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This is AI doing research. Solving problems in ways we haven’t. Creating things we don’t fully understand.

It’s thrilling, useful, and tbh I’m not even sure what many of these discoveries mean and their implications but it’s happening!

If this is 2025, what’s 2035 going to look like? 😅
May 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
It used trial and error. It mutated ideas. It learned through failure, like evolution but on steroids.

AlphaEvolve is already being used in the real world:
• 23% faster matrix computations
• 32.5% faster FlashAttention performance (used in AI models)
May 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
AlphaEvolve was given a math challenge. Improve matrix multiplication.

For 50+ years, Strassen’s method was the gold standard. It used 49 multiplications.

AlphaEvolve found a way to do it with 48. What’s wild is how it got there. It didn’t read examples or get trained on human code.
May 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Nick Bostrom-The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
Paper PDF (University of Oxford):
nickbostrom.com/papers/vulne...

Yuval Noah Harari -On “Digital Dictatorships”
Essay in The Atlantic:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Carl Sagan-Quote on technology and ignorance:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/17320...
nickbostrom.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
E.O. Wilson
Quote origin & background:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/10099...

Francis Fukuyama – Political Order and Political Decay
Book summary & context:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...

Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, Fast and Slow
Book overview on cognitive bias:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkin...
A quote from The Defectors
overreliance bred complacency.  I
www.goodreads.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
7/ Wilson’s quote isn’t just a warning, it’s a mirror.
We don’t need to outpace our tools.
We need to remember what makes us human: reflection, empathy, cooperation, curiosity.
The fix isn’t more power- it’s more wisdom.
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
6/ Carl Sagan warned:

“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements…profoundly depend on science and technology, yet…almost no one understands science and technology.”
That was the 1990s. He hadn’t even seen Twitter yet let alone deep-fakes and AI enabled facial recognition.
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
5/ Yuval Noah Harari cautions about the rise of “digital dictatorships,” where data and AI concentrate power, potentially eroding democracy and individual freedoms.
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
4/ God-like technology:
Nick Bostrom calls it the “vulnerable world hypothesis” - the idea that some technologies are so powerful, they require preemptive governance to avoid catastrophe.
AI, biotech, autonomous weapons all qualify.
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
3/ Medieval Institutions
We’re addressing 21st-century challenges with structures from centuries past.
Francis Fukuyama’s Political Order and Political Decay discusses how institutions can stagnate, failing to adapt to modern complexities, leading to political rot.
May 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM