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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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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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What we have is a data glut.
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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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