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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Vernor Vinge
IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
Vernor Vinge
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.
Vernor Vinge
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
Vernor Vinge
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
Vernor Vinge
We're endangered by our own success.
Vernor Vinge
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
Vernor Vinge
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
Vernor Vinge
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.
Vernor Vinge
It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
Vernor Vinge
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
Vernor Vinge
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.
Vernor Vinge
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Vernor Vinge
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge