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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

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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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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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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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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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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 physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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