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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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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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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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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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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