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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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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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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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