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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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What we have is a data glut.
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