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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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Possibility
Race
Human
Humans
Extinction

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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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