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

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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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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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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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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.
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Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
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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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Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.
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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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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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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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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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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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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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