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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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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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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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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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 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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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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