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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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Humans
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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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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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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