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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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 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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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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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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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