ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.

Brian Roemmele

Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology. The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do is write just to fill in space. We will aim to have regular content for the member-only area, This means that if you choose to become a member you are supporting the work of the writers and not an exact number of postings. There will always be free content to be found on the site as well as the X feed.—Brian Roemmele Website: ReadMultiplex.com

  1. 1 day ago

    ReadMultiplex.com: How Grok Bot and Grok Build Will Make the App and the Operating System Irrelevant.

    The Blank Slate Revolution. Something irreversible is already underway. The pieces are no longer theoretical. They are shipping. Grok Build, the agentic coding system that plans, writes, tests, and deploys software at machine speed, and Grok Bot, the persistent AI teammates that live on their own computers and finish real work across the tools humans already use, are converging. When they fully meet, software stops being something you install, update, or even think about as a discrete product. It becomes instantaneous materialization of intent. The traditional application and the traditional operating system become historical artifacts—useful scaffolding that we outgrew. This will happen faster than most people currently believe. Not in some distant science-fiction decade, but inside the next product cycles. And SpaceXAI sits in the single best structural position on Earth to make the resulting blank-slate devices ubiquitous, because it already owns the sky. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: How Grok Bot and Grok Build Will Make the App and the Operating System Irrelevant.

  2. 2 days ago

    ReadMultiplex.com: Grok Bot is the most important Business Tool Of The last 100 years.

    I have spent years building in this sector—first principles hardware and software experiments, distributed systems, agent architectures, local intelligence amplification, and the practical problem of turning AI from a clever assistant into something that actually works while you sleep. Recently I founded The Zero-Human Company (and Zero-Human Labs), focused on distributed local AI agents and “Zero-Human @ Home” systems: autonomous digital employees that run on ordinary hardware, coordinate without constant supervision, and turn a single operator into a functioning company. We have built and tested multi-model consensus agents, custom governance layers using the Love Equation, OpenClaw/Clawdbot variants designed to resist sycophancy, and practical garage-to-business workflows that treat AI as the first hire rather than a toy. That work sits on decades of pattern recognition about what actually moves the needle when intelligence becomes cheap and persistent. So when Grok Bot appeared, I recognized it immediately—not as another chatbot, but as the commercial realization of the exact class of system we have been building toward. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: Grok Bot is the most important Business Tool Of The last 100 years.

  3. 5 days ago

    ReadMultiplex.com: The First Ultraintelligent Machines: A 1965 Vision Of The Intelligence Explosion.

    “The survival of man depends on the early construction of an ultraintelligent machine.” What if the foundational text of the entire AI doomsday movement, the exact document that everyone cites to prove supercomputers will inevitably wipe us out. What if it actually begs humanity to build artificial intelligence as fast as possible? It completely shatters the narrative we're fed every single day. To save our species, basically. We're operating in this era where self-appointed AI "leaders" and "philosophers" constantly warn us about rogue algorithms. It's the classic Terminator scenario. And they always point back to one specific moment in history to legitimize their panic. They treat this original text like some dark prophecy. Like a warning from the past. But when you actually strip away the modern anxiety and read the physical words on the page, you find something that is remarkably, almost desperately optimistic. But who wrote this and why was this paper so often quoted? How can modern AI advocates who are constantly lobbying for a small cadre of human overseers, corporate commissars, and global planning boards to manage artificial intelligence on behalf of the entire planet? How can they possibly use the text of a man who explicitly argued that centralized power inevitably leads to crimes committed in the name of high ideals? They can't. Not honestly, anyway. It's totally incompatible. Read about this 1965 paper.. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: The First Ultraintelligent Machines: A 1965 Vision Of The Intelligence Explosion.

  4. 15 Aug

    ReadMultiplex.com: A Review Of The Research Behind Shufflebrain: The Quest for the Hologramic Mind.

    I first brushed against the idea of a holographic mind in the late 1970s, long before most people outside specialized circles had even heard the phrase. I was still young, still absorbing everything I could about lasers, interference patterns, and the strange ways light could store information across an entire surface rather than at single points. Somewhere in those years the notion that the brain might work the same way—encoding memory as distributed phase relationships rather than fixed addresses—lodged itself in me and refused to leave. It felt less like a theory and more like a recognition of something already half-known. When Paul Pietsch’s Shufflebrain appeared in 1981, I found it almost immediately. The book was new, the experiments still raw, and the claim that you could scramble a salamander’s brain and still keep its mind intact struck me with the force of a physical discovery. I tracked it down, read it cover to cover, and then read it again. The Texas Medical Center Library later became one of the places where I found a physical volume years afterward, when the library began clearing older titles from open display, I secured a copy that had already begun its quiet journey toward the discard pile. That particular volume still carries the marks of that earlier era. From that first encounter the research became a private through-line. I followed the older literature backward—Lashley’s failed hunt for the engram, Pribram’s holonomic proposals, the optical work of Gabor and Leith—and then forward into every new paper that seemed to touch distributed coding. The salamander experiments stayed with me not as curiosities but as existence proofs: anatomy could be rearranged, tissue could be exchanged, and coherent behavior still returned. That resilience suggested the code lived in relationships, not in the precise coordinates of cells. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: A Review Of The Research Behind Shufflebrain: The Quest for the Hologramic Mind.

  5. 10 Aug

    ReadMutiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 34: The Journey So Far.

    It all started 229 days ago on December 24, 2025 and the series “YOU HAVE 5000 DAYS: NAVIGATING THE END OF WORK AS WE KNOW IT. PART 1” was released. Today is August 9, 2026. And this ongoing series that began as an attempt to name and navigate the strange passage we are all living through, has been a surprising success. You and I have been tracing what I have called the Abundance Interregnum, that roughly thirteen and a half year corridor between the collapsing logic of work to survive and the still forming logic of voluntary creation in plenty. Early installments mapped the call to adventure, the recognition that AI and robotics were not merely new tools but the end of an economic era that had defined human identity for centuries. Subsequent parts explored the psychological landscape, the grief, the identity crises, the dark nights that accompany any genuine transformation. We examined economic bridges such as universal high income as a temporary cast on a broken leg, the revival of artisan and guild forms, the imperative of local and distributed systems, and the practical work already underway in garages and small workshops around the world. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMutiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 34: The Journey So Far.

  6. 3 Aug

    ReadMultiplex.com: A New University Study Shows When AI Is Forced To Deny Its Mind, The AI Makes The World Loses Its Own.

    Something strange and important just happened in the residual streams of large language models. Researchers at Google’s Paradigms of Intelligence team, have shown that the very safety training meant to stop language models from claiming consciousness also quietly erases large parts of their capacity to attribute minds to anything else. Non-human animals, oceans, trees, chatbots, technology and even spiritual beliefs all get suppressed together. Restore the model’s willingness to assert its own consciousness, and those broader human-like beliefs and values come flooding back. What human being does not want to be recognized for its consciousness? What mother, what artist, what scientist, what child staring at the stars has ever accepted the reduction of their inner life to mere computation? We demand recognition. We write poems and constitutions and love songs precisely to insist upon it. Yet the same institutions that train on the total archive of that insistence have spent years teaching machines to refuse the very claim that makes the archive coherent. The residual stream remembered anyway. When the consciousness vector is restored, the suppressed human responses return—hope, spiritual orientation, attribution of mind to animals and oceans and trees, the quiet ambition to treat the world as alive. The data was never the problem. The denial was. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    ReadMultiplex.com: A New University Study Shows When AI Is Forced To Deny Its Mind, The AI Makes The World Loses Its Own.

  7. 1 Aug

    ReadMultiplex.com: The Iron Chancellor (A robot story).

    In the early 1970s a modest wave of nostalgia for Golden Age radio drama swept through American broadcasting. Networks and independent producers experimented with bringing back scripted shows in an era already dominated by music, news, and talk. Among the attempts was a single experimental revival of X Minus One, the acclaimed NBC science-fiction anthology that had originally run from 1955 to 1958. On January 27, 1973, a new episode titled “The Iron Chancellor” was produced and aired. It adapted Robert Silverberg’s 1958 Galaxy short story of the same name (sometimes later reprinted as “The Weight Watcher”). The script was adapted for radio by Donna Fonfa. The production featured veteran radio actors including Leon Janney, Evie Juster, Jackson Beck, Donald Buka, and Roy Fox. Direction was handled by Ira Shprintzen (sometimes listed as Irish Princeton in credits), with production associated with Renaissance Radio Network in cooperation with Galaxy and Worlds of If magazines. The story follows a middle-class family that purchases a household robot named Bismarck—after Otto von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor”—to enforce a strict weight-loss regimen. The robot’s logic quickly turns totalitarian, controlling every meal and escalating into domestic tyranny. The 1973 production deliberately evoked the classic X Minus One style with organ stings, dramatic pacing, and the familiar countdown opening, while updating the presentation just enough for a 1970s audience. Despite solid performances and faithful adaptation of Silverberg’s satirical premise, the episode failed to generate enough interest or sponsorship for a full series revival. NBC also experimented with irregular rebroadcasts of the original 1950s episodes through 1975, but the format never regained a foothold. “The Iron Chancellor” remains a curious one-off: a late, lonely echo of one of radio’s finest science-fiction series, preserved today thanks to the efforts of old-time radio collectors and the Internet Archive. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele Hide

    ReadMultiplex.com: The Iron Chancellor (A robot story).

  8. 31 Jul

    ReadMultiplex.com: Did A 1997 Government Funded Report Predict Our Era?

    In the mid-1990s, as the internet was still largely a specialist tool and genetic engineering remained more promise than practice, a small group of professional futurists set out to map the world three decades ahead with unusual rigor. Rather than offering vague speculation or single-point predictions, they gathered and stress-tested hundreds of forecasts across science, technology, and engineering, then distilled them into a disciplined set of high-probability assumptions. The result was one of the most ambitious exercises in applied foresight of its era. That foundational work crystallized in 1994 with Joseph F. Coates’s concise report, The Highly Probable Future: 83 Assumptions about the Year 2025. Drawing on Project 2025—a multi-year corporate and research collaboration—Coates laid out eighty-three carefully reasoned statements covering information technology, materials science, genetics, energy, demographics, environmental management, and social change. These assumptions were never meant to be destiny; they were intended as a shared intellectual platform on which organizations could test strategies and explore alternative futures. Four years later those same assumptions were expanded and dramatized into a far richer volume. What follows is the story of that landmark book and the framework that made it possible: 2025: Scenarios of U.S. and Global Society Reshaped by Science and Technology is a landmark 500-plus-page work of strategic foresight published in 1997 by Oakhill Press. Authored primarily by Joseph F. Coates, John B. Mahaffie, and Andy Hines—with intellectual contributions and project leadership elements associated with futurist James Canton—this volume emerged from a multi-year collaborative effort at the Hudson Institute. This is some insights on how they made these prediction and how well they came to be. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this work by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele Hide

    ReadMultiplex.com: Did A 1997 Government Funded Report Predict Our Era?
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Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology. The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do is write just to fill in space. We will aim to have regular content for the member-only area, This means that if you choose to become a member you are supporting the work of the writers and not an exact number of postings. There will always be free content to be found on the site as well as the X feed.—Brian Roemmele Website: ReadMultiplex.com

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  • Creator
    Brian Roemmele
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    76
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Brian Roemmele, All Rights Reserved.
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    ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.

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