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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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Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!
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What we have is a data glut.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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