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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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 humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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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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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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