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What we have is a data glut.

Vernor Vinge

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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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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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 physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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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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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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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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