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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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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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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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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What we have is a data glut.
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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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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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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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