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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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Hair
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Throat

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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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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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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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 dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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