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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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
Flexibility
Intelligence
Change
Handmaiden
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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 say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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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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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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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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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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