Mitch Friedfeld
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Mitch Friedfeld
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Concerned citizen, retired government drone. Classical music, guitar, classic rock, politics. #Mahler, #Bach, #Schubert
“If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill us All.” A deeply troubling book. Read it.
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Ending soundtrack on E6 is Doors’ People are Strange, in Spanish. I like that.
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“The preferences that wind up in a mature AI are complicated, practically impossible to predict, and vanishingly unlikely to be aligned with our own, no matter how it was trained.”

And therein lies the problem.
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Once those foundations are in place, though, predicting the outcome of our present trajectory starts to look grimly, horribly straightforward.”
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM