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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 amon…

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 alo…

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 …

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…

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.y…

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 do…

 All of my audio content is now [in one place](https://audio.com/alexbeyman), consisting mostly of narrations by talented Youtubers, but also fo…

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 follow…

 *^{Stable Diffusion}* --- I intend this writing in part as a counterpoint to [this article](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/azRwPDbZfp…

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

 This one needs some explaining upfront. By all means, skip over anything you already know. The [Overton Window](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Buckle up troopers, this one's a banger. Organism is the work of Dr. Morro, the same author behind Olympia, which I covered [here](https://hive.blog/travel/@alexbeyman/postcards-fr…

 ^{Stable Diffusion} --- I became interested in writing for Medium in large part because of the apparen…

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 ^{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,…

 ^{[Stable Diffusion](https://stablediffusionweb.com/)} --- However ridiculous we may find their…

 ^{Stable Diffusion} --- “The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed” -William Gib…

 ^{Stable Diffusion} For the past few days I’ve been having a great deal of fun playing with Cha…

 ^{Stable Diffusion} --- In a recent interview, Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI, said the followi…

 ^{Stable Diffusion} --- Amid Musk’s recent rash behaviors, the connection nobody seems willing t…