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

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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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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 humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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