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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.

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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 if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.
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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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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.
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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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