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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

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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 have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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What we have is a data glut.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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