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What we have is a data glut.

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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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Data

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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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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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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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