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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.

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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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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