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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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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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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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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