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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge
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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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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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