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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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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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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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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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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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