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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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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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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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