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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

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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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Omniscient
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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