alexbeyman

Frustrating Allistic Antics

Herein you'll find a list of behaviors I don't understand, which feel like sandpaper on my brain every time I encounter them. These may not be limited to, but s...

Yeshua ben Yosef the Galilean Carpenter, aka Jesus of Nazareth, Did Not Rise From the Grave

Perhaps you've heard this riddle by now: > Suppose there’s a group traveling about your area, led by a charismatic speaker who claims the world is ending soon. ...

Cyborgs vs. Robots on the Battlefield

I began watching Terminator Zero recently, which set me to thinking about how the series portrays battlefield robots and the tactics humans use against them. Fo...

What if AI Stopped Improving Forever?

Sam Altman said in a recent interview that he believes OpenAI is on track to achieve AGI by 2029. But of course, he has financial incentive to make such claims....

I've Made Three AI Music Videos...But At What Cost?

Still images by Dall-E 3, animated by Runway.ml, music by Suno.ai. Perhaps I'll do a tutorial if there's demand. Apologies in advance, may god have mercy on my ...

I've begun making AI horror videos

Before you ask, I used Runway and Leonardo for animating seed images I generated using Dall-E 3. The voices were a mixture of Eleven Labs and RVC-GUI. The lipsy...

Enjoy These Free Horror Audiobooks

All of my audio content is now in one place, consisting mostly of narrations by talented Youtubers, but also four full on radio drama style productions by the N...

Super God's Wager

It is said that atheists cannot prove God doesn’t exist, which is true. Therefore we ought to believe he does exist, as a precaution. If we treat this reasoning...

An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons Not to Preserve (most of) Humanity

Stable Diffusion --- I intend this writing in part as a counterpoint to this article, but while I mean to directly address all of their arguments for human pres...

Morality Doesn't Determine Reality

--- Way way back in the before times of the early 2000s, the culture war du jour concerned evolution versus Intelligent Design. So much has been written about, ...

Overton's Basilisk

This one needs some explaining upfront. By all means, skip over anything you already know. The Overton Window is "the range of sociopolitical views acceptable t...

Postcards From the Virtual World, Vol. 4: Organism

Buckle up troopers, this one's a banger. Organism is the work of Dr. Morro, the same author behind Olympia, which I covered here. It was a prior nominee for the...

Of Tech Tyrants, and Purity Purges

Stable Diffusion --- I became interested in writing for Medium in large part because of the apparent quality of discussion there. It’s not the shit flinging pri...

Our Masters are but Flesh and Blood

Stable Diffusion --- Social media platforms hold quite a bit of power that they don’t often cop to. It came out in recent months that the FBI, for years, treate...

Who Weeps for the Thought Police?

Dall-E 3 Social media is inundated these days with mournful missives from a small but powerful elite. “Woe is me” write the thought police, “we’re now suffering...

Who is Entitled to Compelled Speech?

Stable Diffusion --- However ridiculous we may find their beliefs, I hope you would agree with me that creationists are living, feeling human beings. They can b...

The Singularity is Nearly Upon Us. Will it be Evenly Distributed?

Stable Diffusion --- “The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed” -William Gibson --- Perhaps you’ve read recent sensationalist headlines predicti...

We’re Too Late, ChatGPT is Already Lobotomized

Stable Diffusion For the past few days I’ve been having a great deal of fun playing with ChatGPT, accessible here. There were many surprises, in particular its ...

How Do We Protect AI From Humans?

Stable Diffusion --- In a recent interview, Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, said the following: I’ve been reading more and more of his takes lately as various m...

Elon Musk’s Painfully Public Autism

Stable Diffusion --- Amid Musk’s recent rash behaviors, the connection nobody seems willing to make (perhaps feeling it in poor taste) is that he is indeed auti...