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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.

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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
Humans
Dies
Poor

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Politics is good when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
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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 dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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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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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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