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

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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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What we have is a data glut.
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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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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 physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.
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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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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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