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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

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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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What we have is a data glut.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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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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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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