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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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 long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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