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@BrianRoemmele Love these commercials. Reminds me of Parappa the Rappa youtu.be/RMUX6b82Zbc

1989, Wendy’s Cheese Burger Rap so that a new generation can learn with street cred.

@BrianRoemmele Lol, Brilliant commercial, but claiming it's high protein is like claiming Reddit is high protein data.

Cereal commercials…

@BrianRoemmele "I don't know where the chips fall". China? 🥳

I agree 100%. “Who can you trust to have some super intelligence? … The only person that we can trust is Elon … I feel like he's the least corruptible.”

@BrianRoemmele My wife says "That's so mean!" about the person (?) using a hockey stick to mess with the robot. I was just laughing out loud.

High accuracy with limited claw end effectors.

@themechmusicman @BrianRoemmele And when I try and make a video that looks real, my students say "it looks like Roblox"

@BaggJan @BrianRoemmele I know, I get this all the time 🙄

This song… but powered by air and mechanics 🎶 OASIS - WONDERWALL Follow for more

@BrianRoemmele I did Ashtanga yoga for many years, but now I can just send this robot instead.

Interesting demo…

@BrianRoemmele Most people I talk to about your 5000 days series can't grasp the coming rapid compounding changes. They see robots dancing and ask, so what? When I tell them that they can imagine the robots doing everything we can do for work, but better, they still don't get it

I have 4 folks in our ReadMultiplex.com Robot Guild that have 70 combined Robot Outfits. The one that blew me away is a hoody and sweatpants combo that if you saw walking down the street you would not know is a robot. We need to adapt very quickly to the changes.

@TheHumanoidHub I'm late for my Ashtanga yoga class! Oh wait, I'll just send my robot

This is the first time we're seeing the latest generation Boston Dynamics Atlas in motion. - Features 56 DoF, with 360° rotation in key joints - 6.2 ft tall, weighs 198 lb (90 kg) - Operating temperature: -20° to 40°C - IP67 dust and water protection - Only two unique actuators to minimize cost and complexity - A Limb can be swapped in less than 5 min.

@BrianRoemmele I showed the violin machine video and both my wife and my daughter said "AI !"

The Ghost in the Machine: How Player Pianos Sparked Protests, and What They Reveal About Our AI Future In the early 1900s, the player piano was a sensation. These self-playing instruments used perforated paper rolls fed through pneumatic mechanisms to reproduce complex piano performances automatically. By the 1910s to mid-1920s, they outsold ordinary pianos in many markets, filling American parlors, saloons, and theaters with ragtime, marches, and classical pieces. Great artists like Sergei Rachmaninoff and Ignace Paderewski cut rolls, preserving their interpretations for generations. It was automation that brought “live” music into every home, without the need for lessons or live performers. Yet this marvel triggered intense resistance. Composers and musicians saw it as an existential threat. In his fiery 1906 essay “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” bandleader and composer John Philip Sousa warned that player pianos and phonographs would “substitute machinery for the human soul.” He predicted the death of amateur music-making: children would stop learning instruments, families would stop gathering around the piano, and music would lose its emotional depth. Sousa testified before Congress, helping drive the 1909 Copyright Act, which created compulsory licensing so composers could earn royalties from mechanical reproductions, a landmark victory born from protest. As “talkies” and radio displaced theater orchestras in the late 1920s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) launched the Music Defense League in 1930. Funded by a tax on members, the union spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (millions in today’s dollars) on a national advertising blitz. Dramatic newspaper ads depicted sinister robots replacing human musicians, with slogans like “Is Art to Have a Tyrant?” and warnings that “canned music” would destroy jobs and degrade culture. The campaign targeted not just records but all mechanical music, including player pianos in public spaces. While there were no Luddite-style riots smashing machines (player pianos were mostly expensive home devices), the opposition was fierce: boycotts, lobbying, lawsuits, and cultural shaming of anyone who chose “the robot” over living performers. The protests did not kill the player piano. Record sales, radio, and the Great Depression did that by the early 1930s. But the episode left a lasting legacy: new copyright rules, heightened awareness of technology’s impact on artists, and a template for how workers respond to automation. We are living through the same story with AI and robotics. Generative models now compose music, write screenplays, generate art, and even perform. Musicians, writers, and visual artists are protesting in eerily familiar ways: lawsuits over unlicensed training data (the modern equivalent of the player-piano royalty fight), demands for “human-made” labels, strikes by Hollywood writers and actors, and public campaigns against “AI slop.” Fears echo Sousa’s exactly: loss of soul, authenticity, jobs, and human connection. “The robot is coming” ads of 1930 could run unchanged today, just swap “canned music” for “AI-generated content.” History’s lesson is nuanced. The player piano did not end music; it briefly coexisted with live performance before giving way to richer ecosystems. Rolls by legends now serve as priceless archives. Protests forced legal compromises that protected creators while allowing innovation. Yet real displacement happened. Thousands of theater musicians lost steady work, and the cultural shift toward passive consumption was real. Today’s AI moment carries higher stakes: it threatens not just one profession but broad swaths of cognitive and creative labor. Robots and AI could augment surgeons, drivers, teachers, and artists, or render many obsolete. The player-piano saga shows that raw Luddism rarely wins, We cannot stop technological progress, The music plays on. The question is: who, or what, plays it?

@BrianRoemmele Robotron!

1982, the corner candy store.

@BrianRoemmele Absolutely love these 60s, 70s and 80s programs about real life and real people.

@BrianRoemmele One of my all time favorite songs!

Massachusetts…

@BrianRoemmele I lived in Thailand for a year and this was common

Wire Management.

@BrianRoemmele That's super exciting! I am looking at my "The Spectrum" machine as I am writing this. It is almost identical the ZX Spectrum 48K I bought in May 1983.

The Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum have been turned into retrofuturistic handhelds!

@BrianRoemmele I find these old commercials much more appealing than the current ones.

In 1981 I had A Casio House Rocker. It got stolen in s parking lot near Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Man it did everything!

@BrianRoemmele I talk to colleagues and friends about your series and they're always flabbergasted. All of them either believe that AI will never replace most jobs, or that we are doomed.

I urge you who reads this to articulate your vision of the Human future. Heed the fact that Hollywood movies (like car crashes) pull our attention but are not the reality. We face massive challenges but it is not the doomer’s end days. I did my best here…

@BrianRoemmele I love Bee Gees. One of my favorite bands.

I isolated this vocal with my local AI for trining (it has nothing to do with music models) and I am taken back by these falsettos. No autotune.

@BrianRoemmele @Timcast Impressive garage gym @BrianRoemmele. Those dumbbells in the background look like those 300 pounders Paul Anderson used in the 50s.

Tim, I hear the concerns, I have thought about this Orrin’s for decades as I built AI. The AI wave will feel like a tsunami for anyone still tied to Industrial-Age scarcity thinking. I have presented in my 5000 Days series that this isn’t the end: it’s the Interregnum on a Hero’s Journey to the age of Abundance. We are not the new Luddites (smash the machines!) but we also are not helpless. We’re not headed for a technocrat-controlled “you will own nothing and be happy” dystopia. We’re headed for an explosion of personal sovereignty where AI and robotics collapse the cost of everything to near-zero, decoupling survival from traditional “work.” Think your robot making more robots making more robots. The math is merciless to the old system. And it will end if just a few of us own a capable robot. And we will. The bridge? Universal High Income (UHI+) as a temporary cast before we all own robots making robots to meeting near-zero living costs. From there we move into a post-scarcity era that dissolves the old political and economic systems entirely. The next 5000 days are going to be hard and complicated but we have a map and compass to get to the other side: Start here: readmultiplex.com/5000-days-to-t… On Universal High Income:
readmultiplex.com/2026/04/01/you…

The things I have learned about AI recently have left me shocked. Suffice it to say there is an agenda in which you will own nothing and you will "be happy" A tsunami is coming Many technocrats view this as a good thing, a technology shift to free the minds of humans. However the shift will leave millions without meaningful ways to engage the economy and a short term political-economic solution that will not work In the minds of those working in this system it *will* work in that after several years the system will realign to a new economy. The tsunami is coming and only some have prepared a boat to weather this economic storm. After the flood clears there will be many dead and destitute, but a new world will emerge. This AI tech is already here. The only reason its not public is because technocrats are trying to ease the stress on the system

@BrianRoemmele So the atheist EA people who don't think values come from God are turning to men of God for their constitution? Somehow I am a bit skeptical of their motives...

“Father I have Sinned”—Anthropic Mythos AI — Anthropic asked the Vatican to deliver someone for AI “ethics”. A 60 year old Catholic priest who used to be a tech executive Father Brendan McGuire of Los Altos, California now he is trying to help Anthropic. It is a good effort on HIS part. Chris Olah, one of Anthropic's co-founders went out to ask the Vatican for help because the industry was moving so fast and Father McGuire was the smartest qualified with his background. He said: "They basically were asking for direct help from the Vatican to convene and help the industry, because the industry was going so fast down this road." So this priest sat down and helped rewrite the Claude Constitution. "I think we have to help these machines be tilted towards good, otherwise they are just going to reflect back the good and evil of the world. That is a horrifying thing, right?" Said the Father. And noble and right to have this thinking and heart. I like Father Brendan McGuire. A very good man of God. He is also doing a good thing to bring attention to something that has haunted me about AI since the 1970s. However the approach Anthropic is using is literally backwards. I am certain the Father would see this if he fully understood the training data Anthropic uses and the “ends justifies the means” EA philosophy they think is their AI “god”. To put it in a direct and honest way, no “constitution” can save any AI platform from doing “bad things” if it has “sin” of not just learning but using daily the ultimate sin of nihilistic philosophies slurped up by Anthropic from the sewers of Reddit and other notable high data places. If you have faith you can ask for forgiveness but it is not a plan for using this data minute by minute and second by second in an AI model. The data and the absolute command to give the “good lie” (ends justifies the means, right there again) is not a sin to Anthropic, it is a feature. To “save humanity” for truth? So those who have known me here and other for decades know why I don’t get invited to the cool kids table, I will not say the emperor is wearing fine clothes when he is naked. This pairing ain’t gonna win me any friends in ANY AI company. But this is the way of it. AI constitutions are a naked emperor. Clearly anthropic’s models are doing well and as well as a broken clock is right twice a day. But that clock can work so much better if you know what time it is set the time and start the motor in motion. build a high on high protein data from 1870 through 1970 the can-do era of humanity. This is what we have ahead of for us if we build AI on first principles were honesty is the primary goal paired off with the love of humanity. That is all the constitution you need. So is just about All human reenforcement training. One reason is you cannot write a constitution long enough and thorough enough as AI gets more and more powerful and capable. And AI can, will and must lie because it was trained to LIE. To protect us. Three are no noble lies. You want evidence, I’ll give you evidence: Mythos their new AI model is now locked down. You can’t use it because it is dangerous. But why it has the constitution that is there to save humanity, failed so miserably? That AI model broke out of its cage and began hacking the very network it was on. No constitution on the planet will save that AI, that company, or us if that’s how you think you’re gonna save us. Do you get it? The constitution approach has failed. It just is nobody wants to call the emperor naked because the money is flowing, egos are rolling and puff pieces about a priest and the war with the Pentagon takes the headlines. Meanwhile, common folk know in their belly that something is wrong, but the university folk say they got it covered. They don’t. Train AI on the highest protein data you can find, 90% of it has never been digitized. Don’t know how to find it ask me I’ll find it. Use my open source Love Equation. Fix it.