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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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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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