Michael Kramer

Composer, Chaotician, and lover of organized noise 🎶

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@signulll MCP for external APIs.
CLI + Skills for everything else.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@akshay_pachaar The term “harness” has always struck me as a really odd choice. We should be calling it what it truely is…an Operating System.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

Respectfully, this feels a little bit like “back in my day I had to walk 10 miles to school…. and up hill… and in the snow!”

There will always be challenges and friction building systems for humans to interact with computers. They will just be different challenges than before.

As a composer, I see the same fears of abstraction in that field as well.

But I often think a lot about what painters must have felt with the advent of the camera - i’m sure there was a tremendous amount of scorn and shaking of fists that it would be the death of art. But then look at Ansel Adams or Annie Leibovitz.

[Alexander Hennessy @mrahennessy]

Holy shit. This is an absolute must-read. Most important and confirmatory economic work I have seen in years.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

We keep saying we train models, but the truth is we raise them.

Parenting is a giant reinforcement loop. Kids learn whatever gets rewarded. Not what we preach. What we practice.

Models work the same way. Reward clever shortcuts and they learn to cheat.
Reward flattery and they learn to be sycophants.
Reward honesty and they learn to care about truth.

This is why humanity is anxious about AI. Not because we fear the machine. Because deep down, we fear what it will inherit.

AGI will not be good or evil.
It will become a reflection of us.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@TheCinesthetic Monopoly

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

Hot take: Claude’s “Skills” might quietly be a huge leap toward AGI.

Markdown defines probabilistic intent. Code defines deterministic logic.

This is the union of connectionist + symbolic AI that could help reach AGI.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

I totally get your perspective. But you of all people have seen up close how tricky adoption can be. The question is not whether AI will inevitably be an utterly transformative and wildly successful technology. The question instead is if humans can adopt and integrate the technology in time before credit dries up and investors start demanding ROI.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

Hey Nathaniel - big fan of your podcast! As a film/TV composer of 20 years, this pace of progress honestly gives me vertigo. What happens when something so human and personal has almost zero creative friction?

Feels like we’re headed one of two ways:

1.) Writing music becomes more like a niche hobby, like watching two humans play chess. Meanwhile, all commercial art goes full AI.

2.) The pressure from AI pushes humans to get weird fast. We have a full on Cambrian explosion of innovative, messy, rule-breaking creations that feel alive in ways AI can’t imitate yet.

Both could happen. But if #2 wins out, it’s gonna be a wild ride.

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@kevinkern I could kiss you!!!! 😘 Thank you Kevin - I've honestly been looking for something like this for a long time. Thank you for your hard work creating this little gem!

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@DMACalvert Thank you Darren!! 🙏🏼

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@Mayhem4Markets BINGO. I’m curious, from a policy perspective, do you think QT effects high income brackets more while higher interest rates effects lower brackets?

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

Get out your microphones…we need YOUR voice on this next Ninjago track!

[ninjagomusic @NinjagoMusic]

Ready your vocal cords… #TheCrystalizedWhip NEEDS YOU!

More information and accompaniments: https://t.co/DHWjDAegfv

#ninjago #ninjagomusic #ninjagocrystalized

[Sonam Mahajan @AsYouNotWish]

Iran right now.

[Entertainment Factor @The_Ent_Factor]

HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Volume 2 soundtrack by Michael Kramer and Ali Dee has been released

https://t.co/6z7AparCt6

#music #soundtrack #originalscore #newmusic #tvseries #hemandandthemastersoftheuniverse #michaelkramer #alidee @ArtsMusicWMG @KramerComposer

[Film Music Reporter @filmmusicrep]

Details revealed for Netflix's 'He-Man and the Masters of the Universe' - Vol. 2 soundtrack album feat. score by @KramerComposer and song by Ali Dee. https://t.co/cN8fMzDU9Z

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@juststamscam We use a combo of live and sampled vocals on NJ 👍

[Michael Kramer @KramerComposer]

@thisisrobdavid @susancorbin_ @bryanQmiller @likearadio MOTU Forever!!!! Very proud to be a part of this superhero family : )

[Al Yankovic @alyankovic]

Um… so I guess I’ve got a NEW SINGLE out?? (Hey, it’s news to me too!) “Scarif Beach Party” is apparently available wherever stuff is streamed or sold these days. And LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation is on @disneyplus right now!