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So much technology, so little talent.

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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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Technology
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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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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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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