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Alex Beyman

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I post text here, often accompanied by images and sometimes video. People then upvote or don't depending on whether they enjoy what I posted.

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Oct 18, 2024, 6:34 PM UTC

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 seem very common among, allistic (non-au…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Oct 6, 2024, 6:15 PM UTC

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. He promises he alone can save you, b…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Sep 2, 2024, 7:40 PM UTC

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. For all the hate that Terminator: Dark Fa…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Jul 31, 2024, 4:16 AM UTC

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. It's like when Elon said we'd have dom…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman May 10, 2024, 11:39 PM UTC

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 soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Feb 13, 2024, 11:41 PM UTC

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 lipsync in Flicker was done using Synclabs.…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Dec 12, 2023, 12:54 AM UTC

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 No Sleep Podcast. You're in for a treat.

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman May 22, 2023, 11:43 PM UTC

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 as valid, it follows that Christians l…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Mar 19, 2023, 6:03 AM UTC

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 preservation one by one, I also have a few…

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Alex Beyman
@alexbeyman Mar 17, 2023, 6:24 AM UTC

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, and as part of, this debate that I cann…

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