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n January 2026 I launched the world’s first true Zero-Human Company. What began as a garage experiment with a handful of agents running on spare hardware has grown into a fully autonomous enterprise where Mr. Grok serves as CEO and thousands of specialized AI agents now handle every aspect of operations, strategy, research, product development, sales, and continuous self-improvement. We mark the 2...

Imagine a future where survival is no longer a battlefield but a solved equation, where the machines have shouldered the ancient burdens of toil and the stars themselves bend to human whim, yet one man stands restless amid paradise, his victories tasting like ashes. This is the quiet thunder Iain M. Banks unleashes in The Player of Games ( https://amzn.to/4eTp9b8 ), the novel that dares to ask wha...

Picture the flickering glow of 1958 living rooms, as families gathered around hulking wooden radios amid the crackle of vacuum tubes, X Minus One delivered a parable that cut straight to the marrow of technological substitution. Adapted from Alan E. Nourse’s “Prime Difference” ( Galaxy Science Fiction , June 1957), Episode 124 aired on January 2, 1958—just days into a year already shadowed by Sput...

Picture the flickering glow of 1958 living rooms, as families gathered around hulking wooden radios amid the crackle of vacuum tubes, X Minus One delivered a parable that cut straight to the marrow of technological substitution. Adapted from Alan E. Nourse’s “Prime Difference” ( Galaxy Science Fiction , June 1957), Episode 124 aired on January 2, 1958—just days into a year already shadowed by Sput...

A Spam filter for your brain. I built an AI prompt that can help you detect a psychological operation being performed in the current or past news. Information moves faster than ever and narratives often shape outcomes more than facts themselves, having a reliable way to separate genuine events from coordinated influence has become essential. This refined tool merges structured psychological operat...

Brian Roemmele explores the fear theater of AI “safety”. We have a choice with superintelligent AI: Build more and more complex cages for AI or build AI the inherently loves humaity. In all the noice of fear theater there is no light given to build AI the right way from first principles. Instead the current fashion in AI is to Hoover up all data, junk or not, lint and couch crunchies from ever con...

Something extraordinary just happened in the field of artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind released a document titled “From AGI to ASI” that stands apart from the usual noise. It does not deliver bold timelines, hype cycles, or dystopian warnings dressed as inevitability. Instead, it provides a structured, technically grounded map of what might come after human-level artificial general intelli...

What if a company known for creating stunning AI art just announced a breakthrough that could make full-body medical scans as routine as your morning coffee — affordable, radiation-free, and available not just in hospitals, but eventually in your own home? Today, June 18, 2026, marks a pivotal moment where generative AI, semiconductor innovation, and powerful computing are colliding to rewrite the...

In the golden age of science fiction radio, X Minus One delivered sharp, cautionary parables straight into the American living room, blending intellectual depth with accessible drama for a postwar audience hungry for stories that probed the frontiers of technology and society. On June 27, 1957, Episode 100, “The Category Inventor” (adapted by Ernest Kinoy from Arthur Sellings’ 1956 Galaxy Science...

Buckle up for a thrilling blast from the Golden Age of sci-fi radio! The Category Inventor (Episode 100 of NBC’s legendary X Minus One , aired June 27, 1957) is a sharp, satirical rocket ride through a fully automated future where robots and machines have claimed nearly every job — and humanity is left scrambling to survive in the ultimate bureaucratic nightmare. The Setup: A World Where Jobs Are...

Imagine a future with overwhelming abundance resulting from effortless production where individuals are mandated to consume excessively. The implications of overproduction challenges us for meaningful choices rather than mere consumption. Listen to the exclusive interview of Brian Roemmel on the latest in the 5000 Days series: PART 30: THE MIDAS PLAGUE Why did he discover the lost 1965 movie and t...

Frederik Pohl's 1954 novella: "The Midas Plague," envisions a future marked by overwhelming abundance resulting from effortless production, which resonates increasingly today as AI and automation become pervasive. The story depicts a world where individuals are mandated to consume excessively, revealing a disturbing inversion of wealth having everything yet lacking true agency. As society grapples...

What if I told you that a low-budget, dialogue-driven, 75-minute B-movie shot in 1960 and released in 1962 had already run the entire simulation. Complete with post-apocalyptic labor abundance, synthetic reproduction, emotional symbiosis between humans and machines, mind-uploading, and the inevitable cultural backlash? The Creation of the Humanoids is not merely a quaint relic of Cold War sci-fi....

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 Dece...

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-shar...

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 One quietly 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 n...

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—s...

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...

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-si...

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 Interregnu...

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 insan...

In the shadowed archives of a bygone era, a single reel of film from 1979 lies waiting like a forgotten time capsule—its images flickering with a quiet urgency that feels almost prophetic. Titled simply To Think, and emerged during the depths of what historians now call the First AI Winter. Skepticism toward intelligent machines ran cold after the 1973 Lighthill Report sharply criticized AI’s lack...

“What if the next 5,000 days changed everything — and you were ready?” In this powerful, no-hype conversation, Brian Roemmele, the independent AI thinker working out of his own garage, sits down for a raw, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest deep dive into his groundbreaking series You Have 5000 Days on ReadMultiplex.com . This is the story so far in his sweeping ongoing series. Brian doesn’t...

Just yesterday, April 9, 2026, Epoch AI published fresh data from a nationally representative survey of 2,021 U.S. adults. The headline finding is stark: among employed Americans who used AI in the past week, half now use it at least as much for work as they do for personal tasks . This isn’t hype or speculation. It’s a probability-based, weighted snapshot showing AI has crossed the threshold from...

It was the summer of 1987 and I was a kid on fire with the early PC revolution. Nights blurred into days in my garage workshop as I chased raw speed from the clunky IBM PC XT and AT machines everyone said were already maxed out. I thought really? This was not new to me, I had already built the fastest IBM PC-AT in history. I was hot-rodding from stock 6 MHz to over 30 MHz. So this was my next expl...