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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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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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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 dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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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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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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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