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The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

Vernor Vinge

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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
Empathize
Manipulation
Touched
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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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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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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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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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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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