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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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