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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
Life
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Madness
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Green
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Squeeze
Trying
Warmth

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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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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 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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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So much technology, so little talent.
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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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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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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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 physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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