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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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Left
Life
Revenge
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Lived
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Law

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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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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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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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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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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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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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So much technology, so little talent.
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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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