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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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