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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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Heads
Kill
Death
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Trying

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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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The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.
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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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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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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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So much technology, so little talent.
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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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Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
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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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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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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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All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.
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Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
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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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Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.
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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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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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I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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