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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
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Politics
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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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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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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