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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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What we have is a data glut.
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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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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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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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