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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
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Humans

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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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