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

Vernor Vinge

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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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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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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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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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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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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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'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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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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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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