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I have come to kill you.The death's heads shrugged. You have come to try.

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
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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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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Well, what do you know, Pham said. Butterflies in jackboots.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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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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What we have is a data glut.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.
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Poor humans they will all die.Poor us we will not.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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