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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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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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What we have is a data glut.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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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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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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