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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
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If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
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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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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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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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It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
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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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We're endangered by our own success.
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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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We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
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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 voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
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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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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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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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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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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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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 say, let's learn more and then speculate.
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