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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.

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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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Lying
Nothing
Million
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Millions

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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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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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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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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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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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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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