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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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Fiction
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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 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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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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