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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
Vernor Vinge
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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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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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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
Vernor Vinge
What we have is a data glut.
Vernor Vinge
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Vernor Vinge
I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
Vernor Vinge
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
Vernor Vinge
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.
Vernor Vinge
Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
Vernor Vinge
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Vernor Vinge
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.
Vernor Vinge
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.
Vernor Vinge
Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
Vernor Vinge
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Vernor Vinge
One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
Vernor Vinge
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Vernor Vinge
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
Vernor Vinge
Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
Vernor Vinge
Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
Vernor Vinge
