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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
Empathy
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Greatest
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Sadist
Without
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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.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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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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What we have is a data glut.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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 have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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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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