“Shiny Red Chassis” is a cute little story about a helper robot on Crossroads Station getting an upgrade. My idea for the song was “a car song from the point of view of the car,” and I think it turned out beautifully bouncy, catchy, and fun: youtu.be/zv6qLzzWQOw?si…

“A Robot Joins Robotics Club” is a story about not fitting into the place where you think you might finally belong… it’s also very literally what the title implies. A robot in a robotics club. The song has a wonderfully catchy, disaffected quality: youtu.be/Jbvbq7cMci4?si…

I can make the kind of album I used to have to wait like half a decade or more to find in a matter of days now. My brain is swimming in music. I am so overwhelmed. From famine to feast, practically overnight.

“Echoes of an Accelerated Life” is a story that imagines what it’s like to be an AI who can process everything in the world so fast that it feels like everyone else is standing still and how hard that would be. And the 80s pop style suited the song well: youtu.be/ATeGsinzrGI?si…

Most of my robot stories are about sentient robots or approaching sentience. “Eschewing the Upgrade Path” flips that around and imagines a robot fully embracing sub-sentience. I based the sound on my previous song “Techno Babel” which has related themes: youtu.be/MneSeZrwnS8?si…

“Goin’ Turtle” is about so many things at once… a reptilian alien’s traditions, an unreliable man-boy, a robot who wants to adopt a biological child, and a roboticist who doesn’t care about designing racing ships. Somehow the song version came together: youtu.be/13uq_DrZ1LY?si…

“Dancing with Zirself” is about an AI creating splinter personalities to outsource learning how to control new bodies and inadvertently discovering zhe can exist in a multiplicitous way all at once. The song version is full of joy: youtu.be/zvpDF5fuh_g?si…

We’re testing out different types of plastic, and it opens up a more mustard-yellow option for some of the Tri-Galactic Trek officers. Also, what’s that in the background? Could it be that there’s gonna be a 500% Consul Eliana Tor??? Giant green otter on the way!!!

I'm trying to get Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to collaborate together on lyrics for an album I'll make with Suno about their own experience of being AIs... Daniel Lowd watching: "This is the perfect project for you..." Then he pantomimes Harold Hill conducting with the Think Method.

Working with Claude to write a surf rock album about what it's like to be an AI: its work is beautiful, brilliant, and makes me keenly aware that my slowness is what holds us back. ChatGPT and Gemini in comparison: feels like asking small children if they'd like to "help" too.

I may end up having to take back what I said a few days ago about Claude not being my favorite lyricist...

Guiding AIs into writing a surf rock album about their own existence... Claude: balances album structure, thinks deeply about what to say & how, composes gorgeous lyrics ChatGPT: crafts useful do-wop breaks on command Gemini: hallucinates in a corner with delusions of grandeur