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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Vernor Vinge
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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
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Science Fiction Writer
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Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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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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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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Once upon a time I was such a good liar I could talk the fish right into my mouths.
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