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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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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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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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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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What we have is a data glut.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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 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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