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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 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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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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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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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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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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