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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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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
Handmaiden
Flexibility
Intelligence
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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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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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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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 voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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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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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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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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