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Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
Charles Stross
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Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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Science Fiction Writer
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--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.
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[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
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Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism at worst, it's being unoriginal.
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I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.
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