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Science Fiction Writer Inspirational Quotes (34898)

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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Vernor Vinge
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
Vernor Vinge
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
Vernor Vinge
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: Just say no.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.
Joss Whedon
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
Vernor Vinge
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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What we have is a data glut.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Vernor Vinge
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