ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.

Brian Roemmele
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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

  1. ReadMultiplex.com: The AI Abundance Warning Hidden in a 1956 Science Fiction Radio Episode

    1D AGO

    ReadMultiplex.com: The AI Abundance Warning Hidden in a 1956 Science Fiction Radio Episode

    When Lost Colonies Must Invent Vice to Satisfy a Decaying Empire. In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One’s “Skulking Permit.” First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley’s short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one’s true origins can shatter a civilization’s self-image. Today, as we stand on the cusp of an AI-mediated Great Forgetting, one Brian Roemmele has chronicled in his writings on the Amnesia Generation, this story reads less like quaint 1950s satire and more like a warning siren for our own future. Read more at ReadMultiplex.com If you find this content valuable, buy us a coffee to support this work: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    39 min
  2. ReadMultiplex.com: A 1956 Forgotten Radio Satire of Empire, Amnesia, and the Fragile Future Utopia

    3D AGO

    ReadMultiplex.com: A 1956 Forgotten Radio Satire of Empire, Amnesia, and the Fragile Future Utopia

    In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One’s “Skulking Permit.” First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley’s short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one’s true origins can shatter a civilization’s self-image. Today, as we stand on the cusp of an AI-mediated Great Forgetting, one Brian Roemmele has chronicled in his writings on the Amnesia Generation, this story reads less like quaint 1950s satire and more like a warning siren for our own future. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com Support this wrok by buying us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    29 min

  3. MAY 7

    ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 27: Open Warfare.

    In the golden age of science fiction radio, when rocket ships roared forth from the warm glow of vacuum tubes, futures arrived one static-filled episode at a time, and the airwaves still carried the electric promise of tomorrow—X Minus Onequietly broadcast a revolution. On January 23, 1957, Episode 85, “Open Warfare,” adapted by Ernest Kinoy from James E. Gunn’s May 1954 Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, entered the ether. Clocking in at just over twenty-one minutes, this deceptively compact drama contained the complete architectural blueprint for the collision we are living through right now: the instant when perfect machines step onto humanity’s most profoundly human stages and declare open war on what it means to strive, to excel, to connect, to create, and to endure. This installment of the You Have 5,000 Days series is not nostalgia for crackling transistors or mid-century pulp optimism. It is precise pattern recognition, the kind we have cultivated across previous parts as we mapped the Hero’s Journey through the end of work as we have known it. From the Call to Adventure (the sudden arrival of generative abundance) through the Road of Trials (displacement, reskilling, economic reconfiguration) and the Ordeal (the widespread realization that narrow-domain superhuman performance is here), we now stand at the threshold of the final act: the Abundance Interregnum proper, where humanity must decide whether to compete on machine terms or transcend them entirely. “Open Warfare” is the perfect parable for this moment. It shows us exactly how the machines will arrive, quietly, superior in calibrated domains, composite-trained on the best of us—how unbeatable they will seem for a season, and how humans will still prevail. Not by matching flawless execution, but by transcending it through radical adaptability, emotional intelligence, ethical improvisation, cultural intuition, and the irreducibly messy genius that no dataset, no matter how vast, can fully replicate or anticipate. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com If you found this gave you some value, buy us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    41 min
  4. ReadMultiplex.com: 1957 Saul, The Robot That Almost Won A Bet

    MAY 1

    ReadMultiplex.com: 1957 Saul, The Robot That Almost Won A Bet

    Open Warfare, January 23, 1957) This 1957 radio show was,adapted by Ernest Kinoy from a story by James E. Gunn, a talented but struggling professional golfer named Saul falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy, intellectual elitist. The father firmly believes that athletes are intellectually inferior and refuses to allow the marriage unless Saul can prove himself by earning a substantial sum—specifically by winning a high-stakes golf tournament against the father's sponsored champion. What begins as a seemingly straightforward sports drama quickly reveals deeper layers as Saul confronts not just a superior opponent but a challenge that tests the boundaries between human determination and engineered perfection. The narrative builds tension through the escalating "warfare" on the golf course, where Saul's rival demonstrates uncanny, almost superhuman skill. Listeners gradually uncover the science-fiction twist: the opponent is no ordinary player but a meticulously programmed machine designed for flawless performance. This setup allows the story to explore themes of human ingenuity versus mechanical superiority, class prejudice between intellectuals and physical competitors, and the value of imperfection in achieving true victory. The first half feels like a light, humorous golf tale before the genre elements emerge fully. Ultimately, Saul must rely on creativity, adaptability, and raw human resilience to overcome the odds in a climactic confrontation. The episode delivers a satisfying yet predictable resolution that underscores X Minus One's signature blend of social commentary and speculative fiction. While not the most complex entry in the series, it remains an engaging mid-run story that highlights the show's ability to weave everyday settings with futuristic ideas, running about 22 minutes with strong performances and classic radio production values. Read more at: https://ReadMultiplex.com Support this posdcast by buying a cofee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    21 min
  5. ReadMultiplex.com: The Rise of AI “Trendslop”. It’s The Training Data Stupid.

    APR 26

    ReadMultiplex.com: The Rise of AI “Trendslop”. It’s The Training Data Stupid.

    The data we choose to train AI systems on today is quite literally going to shape the strategic intelligence of tomorrow. You do not want to be asking a sycophant for advice on how to save your your relationships, health, business or the world. You want to build, or at least utilize, something that relies on structural truth. Researchers Asked AI for Strategic Advice, They Got Trend Slop in Return. To briefly summarize our journey today, we start out with the striking discovery of strategy trend slop by the HBR researchers. We uncovered the root cause of that slop in the internet sewage of consensus-enforced platforms like Wikipedia and karma-driven ecosystems like Reddit. And finally, we arrived at Brian Rommel's profound solution, the untapped 1870-1970 high-protein data corpus anchored by his open-source love equations. It is a complete paradigm shift in how we think about the future of machine learning. The 1870 to 1970 data I reccomebd as a solution contains a unique paradigm shift humility, precisely because humanity was discovering so much for the absolute first time, constrained by the physical costs of paper, ink, and reputation. Follow this advice and AI eventually digitizes, ingests, and learns from 74.25 petabytes of offline data and that is historical humility, But what happens when the AI runs out of that pristine data? In our modern era, where digital paper costs absolutely nothing, where every fleeting half-formed thought is instantly recorded and broadcast, and where physical constraints are increasingly abstracted away by software, how do we ensure that the humans of 2030 are somehow creating the rigorous high protein data that the AI of 2050 will need to survive and evolve? How do we build systems that incentivize human truth today? We have to become the authors of the next golden century of data, not just passive consumers of a slop. Thank you so much for joining us on this deep dive on the Read Multiplex podcast. Please go support Brian's work, think critically about the inputs of the tools you use at ReadMultiplex.com. And if this has given you any value, buy Brian a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    32 min
  6. ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 26: I Feel Poor!

    APR 25

    ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 26: I Feel Poor!

    Have you ever noticed how the most miraculous things become completely infuriating the moment they stop working perfectly? Consider the device you are likely using right now to read or listen to this. It possesses more raw computational power than the entire infrastructure that sent humanity to the moon. In the 1980s, equivalent processing power would have cost millions and required a gymnasium-sized facility with massive cooling systems. For the first week it feels like pure magic. Then the battery dips, a page loads four seconds instead of half a second, and physiologically you feel stressed—angry at the miracle in your pocket. This is not ingratitude. Your anxiety is a highly rational response to a very specific economic restructuring. We validate that feeling completely. The cultural narrative that dismisses it as mere pessimism misses the structural reality. Yet you feel poor. Surveys of life satisfaction in developed nations have barely budged. Wages in AI exposed sectors are already dropping. Twenty percent of full time U S employees have seen their roles partially or fully replaced. Nominal paychecks shrink while the currency itself wobbles under the weight of transition policies like Universal High Income experiments and the slow erosion of fiat trust. College degrees that cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars now open doors to roles that artificial intelligence performs faster and cheaper. Job titles that once anchored identity evaporate. The math is merciless. The psychology is harsher.. Explore the article at: ReadMultiplex.com If you found value in this podcast, buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    1 hr
  7. ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 25: The Desk Set Prophecy.

    APR 21

    ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 25: The Desk Set Prophecy.

    In the long arc of our collective story, certain artifacts from the past arrive like messages in bottles, washed ashore from a time when the future was still negotiable. Desk Set (1957) is one such relic, a shimmering, color-saturated romantic comedy that, beneath its champagne toasts and typewriter clatter, delivers a precise, almost eerie blueprint of the tensions now unfolding in the Interregnum. This is not mere nostalgia; it is a distant warning, encoded in laughter and light, about the precise mechanics of technological displacement, corporate rhetoric, human resilience, and the quiet triumph of the irreplaceable. Seventy years before ChatGPT, this film, among the earliest Hollywood productions to feature a computer as a central character, perfectly predicted our modern anxieties about AI, from corporate spin and system meltdowns to the bizarre reality of “AI hallucinations.” It exposed the Productivity Paradox decades before economists named it, and it laid bare the true nature of today’s AI job crisis: highly skilled workers are not simply losing their jobs but are being pushed into the exhausting, monotonous world of data annotation to train their electronic replacements. This movie is a map that will present our journey into the future. Read more at: https://ReadMultiplex.com If you found value in this podcast, buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    44 min
  8. ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 24: The Doomslayer!

    APR 16

    ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 24: The Doomslayer!

    Imagine this. You pay literally half as much in the only currency that truly matters for your weekly groceries, for the fuel in your tank, for the car in your driveway, or even for the home that shelters your family. All of this becomes possible precisely because four billion additional human minds have entered the planetary conversation since the late twentieth century. It sounds completely insane. It feels as if it defies physics itself. For our entire lives we have been steeped in a narrative of inevitable scarcity. The Earth is running out of space, running out of resources, running out of time. Every new person is portrayed as just another mouth taking a larger bite out of an ever shrinking pie. The whole cultural atmosphere has conditioned us to see population growth as a threat, innovation as a temporary fix, and the future as a narrowing corridor of limits. Yet the hard mathematical reality of the past half century reveals the precise opposite. The pie is not shrinking. It is multiplying at an accelerating rate. We are living through what I call the Abundance Interregnum, a turbulent, noisy, chaotic transitional period between the dying industrial age of enforced physical scarcity and the dawning era of accelerating, unprecedented plenty. This is not wishful thinking or utopian speculation. It is the empirical data, rendered in the clearest possible language of time prices and formalized in the Simon Abundance Index. Read more at: ReadMultiplex.com If you recived any value from this show, buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/brianroemmele

    38 min
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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
    50
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    ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.

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