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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
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Life
Revenge
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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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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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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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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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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