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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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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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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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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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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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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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