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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
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Politics
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Greed

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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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 voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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