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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

Vernor Vinge

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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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Humans
Extinction
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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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 heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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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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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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