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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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Vernor Vinge
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: October 2
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Waukesha
Wisconsin
Vernor Steffen Vinge
Jobs
Often
Left
Life
Revenge
Acts
Lived
Stop
Law

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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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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 humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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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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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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