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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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Science
Felt
Endeavors
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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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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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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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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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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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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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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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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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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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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