ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.
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...
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Newsflash By Brian: AI has replaced work for 20% of full-time employees in the U.S. Study.
<p>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 casual experiment to workplace staple.</p><p>The Next 5000 Days Are Yours to Shape</p><p>The Epoch AI data is not a warning. It is confirmation that the clock we have been...
ReadMultiplex.com: The Hidden Refresh Tax in AI GPU Memory: A 60-Year-Old Flaw That Still Haunts Real-Time AI – And How My 1987 Qfresh Is Finally Killing It.
<p>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 exploration. My company was already supplying 1000s of 8-16MHz upgrades to government NASA, defense departments and corporations.</p><p>I...
ReadMultiplex.com: Mythos Rising: Did Antropic Just Achieve AGI? Yes And No.
<p>In the quiet hours of April 8, 2026, a 244-page document dropped like a quiet thunderclap. Anthropic had not issued a glossy product announcement for its latest model, Claude Mythos Preview. Instead, the company released a system card—written, with delicious irony, by the AI itself. What it revealed was not hype. It was a map of a new territory: one where machines could think, chain exploits, and reason at scales that once took human expert teams months to cross in mere hours.</p><p>The goalposts for “AGI” keep moving, as they always have. But Mythos Preview crossed a threshold that f...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 23: How 2, 1956
<p>In this episode we examine a precise 1956 radio prophecy that maps directly onto the middle years of this interregnum: the X Minus One adaptation of Clifford D. Simak’s “How-2.” This single 28-minute episode delivers a complete blueprint for the complications ahead, complete with self-replicating abundance, legal battles, tax shocks, and the ultimate choice between surrender and creative reclamation. Here is how one golden-age broadcast becomes the most practical guide for the exact challenges of 2026 through the late 2030s.</p><p>Imagine: You are on a hero's journey. The ordinary world you were born into, the one where your labor...
ReadMultiplex.com: The Downside To The Age Of Abundance From A 1956 Radio Show.
<p>A 1956 radio prophecy that maps directly onto the middle years of the our interregnum over the next 5000 das is: the X Minus One adaptation of Clifford D. Simak’s “How-2.” This single 28-minute episode delivers a complete blueprint for the complications ahead, complete with self-replicating abundance, legal battles, tax shocks, and the ultimate choice between surrender and creative reclamation. Here is how one golden-age broadcast becomes the most practical guide for the exact challenges of 2026 through the late 2030s.</p><p>Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) was a longtime Wisconsin newspaperman and one of the most humane voices in mid-20th-century science...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 22: After Universal High Income.
<p>You are the hero. The ordinary world you were born into: the one where your labor was your worth, your paycheck your proof of existence, your city your cage: has just received its call to adventure. That call is not a trumpet. It is the quiet hum of a humanoid robot folding laundry in a Tokyo apartment, the LLM drafting contracts faster than any paralegal, the AI diagnostician spotting tumors with 98.7% accuracy where human specialists averaged 87%. The escalator of “new jobs will appear” has reached its final floor. There is no next level.</p><p>This is the Abundance Inte...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 21: 1949 “Marionettes, Inc.” Warning.
<p>In the golden age of radio, X Minus One (NBC, December 21, 1955) delivered a 29-minute gut-punch adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1949 short story “Marionettes, Inc.” Public-domain and free this episode is no quaint relic. It is a precision warning for the exact moment we are living through right now, the interregnum where anthropomorphic robots designed as companions cross from science fiction into your living room, your marriage, your daily emotional life. Bradbury’s tale, written when the world was still recovering from World War II and just beginning to glimpse the automation boom, captures the quiet terror of convenience turning into cap...
ReadMultiplex.com: The Downside To The Age Of Abundance From A 1949 Radio Show.
<p>In the golden age of radio, X Minus One (NBC, December 21, 1955) delivered a 29-minute gut-punch adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1949 short story “Marionettes, Inc.” Public-domain, this episode is no quaint relic. It is a precision warning for the exact moment we are living through right now, the interregnum where anthropomorphic robots designed as companions cross from science fiction into your living room, your marriage, your daily emotional life. Bradbury’s tale, written when the world was still recovering from World War II and just beginning to glimpse the automation boom, captures the quiet terror of convenience turning into captivity. </p><p>Tod...
ReadMultiplex: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 21: The Dynamic Duo.
<p>Imagine a single independent person, no longer tethered to traditional employment or massive institutional backing, wielding the Tesla Optimus and CyberCab as their personal legion. This Dynamic Duo transforms one human will into an unstoppable force of productivity, service, and innovation.</p><p>There is nothing an independent individual cannot accomplish now that they have this power. The only limits are your creativity. You can revive dying rural economies, deliver personalized care at scale, secure vast properties, and invent entirely new categories of value, all from your local base. The age of the empowered creator is upon us.</p><...
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 20: Your Rural CyberCab Company.
<p>As meticulously chronicled in the 5000 Days Interregnum series, humanity finds itself navigating a pivotal transitional epoch, a liminal space stretching across approximately five millennia of days when artificial intelligence evolves from its embryonic, experimental beginnings toward an era of pervasive, omnipresent integration into every facet of existence. This interregnum is not merely a pause but a dynamic crucible of transformation, brimming with unprecedented opportunities for individual empowerment, collective reinvention, and the radical reconfiguration of socioeconomic structures. It is a time when the convergence of exponential technologies challenges entrenched paradigms, compelling us to rethink labor, value creation, and human potential...
