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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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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 physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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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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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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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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