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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
Life
Revenge
Acts
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Jobs
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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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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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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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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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Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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