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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

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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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Technological
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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