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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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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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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.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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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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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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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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