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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.

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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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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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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 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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