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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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So much technology, so little talent.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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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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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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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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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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