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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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Revenge
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Law
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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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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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He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.
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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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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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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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One of his greatest talents was empathy no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.
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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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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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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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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.
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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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