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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

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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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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 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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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 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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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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