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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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 long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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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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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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