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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

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
Greed
Goes
Forever
Politics
May
Come

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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 humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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