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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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Butterflies
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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