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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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 may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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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 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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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 his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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